Dislocation lines in the hyperbolic umbilic diffraction catastrophe

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 462, Issue 2072, 2006, Pages 2299-2313

  Nye, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffraction; Diffraction catastrophes; Optical vortices; Singularity optics; Wave dislocations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845528549     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2006.1683     Document Type: Article

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