Transversal optical vortices in a light wave: Structure and topological reactions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4403, Issue , 2001, Pages 36-42

  Soskin, M S ^a   Vasnetsov, M V ^a   Pas'ko, V A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENSES; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; TOPOLOGY; WAVE EQUATIONS;

LIGHT WAVES; OPTICAL VORTICES (OV);

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0034870767     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.428285     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (7)

1. Dislocations in wave trains
2. Phase saddles and dislocations in two-dimensional waves such as the tides
3. Unfolding of higher-order wave dislocations
4. Wavefront motion in the vicinity of a phase dislocation: "Optical vortex"
5. Creation and annihilation of phase singularities
6. How phase and amplitude aberrations destabilize the phase singularities in the focal field of a lens