Dislocation lines in the swallowtail diffraction catastrophe

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

Volumn 463, Issue 2078, 2007, Pages 343-355

  Nye, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948859667     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2006.1765     Document Type: Article

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