Analysis of the shadow-sausage effect caustic

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 418-428

  Lock, James A ^a   Adler, Charles L ^b   Ekelman, Diana ^b   Mulholland, Jonathan ^b   Keating, Brian ^b  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFRACTION; LIGHT SOURCES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

OPTICAL CAUSTIC;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

EID: 0037455431     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.000418     Document Type: Article

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