Morphology of the nonspherically decaying radiation beam generated by a rotating superluminal source

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2443-2456

  Ardavan, Houshang ^a   Ardavan, Arzhang ^b   Singleton, John ^c   Fasel, Joseph ^d   Schmidt, Andrea ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

POLARIZATION CURRENT; PULSARS; SUPERLUMINAL SOURCES;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

EID: 38849163557     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.24.002443     Document Type: Article

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