Appearance of singularities of optical fields under torsion of crystals containing threefold symmetry axes

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

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1331-1340

  Skab, Ihor ^a   Vasylkiv, Yurij ^a   Zapeka, Bohdan ^a   Savaryn, Viktoriya ^a   Vlokh, Rostyslav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL OPTICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; CRYSTALS; SCREW DISLOCATIONS; SCREWS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

A-PLANE; OPTICAL BEAMS; OPTICAL BIREFRINGENCE; OPTICAL FIELD; PHASE FRONT; POINT SYMMETRY; PURE EDGE DISLOCATION; PURE SCREW; THREE-FOLD SYMMETRY; TRIGONAL SYSTEM;

EDGE DISLOCATIONS;

EID: 79959949061     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.28.001331     Document Type: Article

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