Optical catastrophes of the swallowtail and butterfly beams

Optical catastrophes of the swallowtail and butterfly beams

We experimentally realize higher-order catastrophic structures in light fields presenting solutions of the paraxial diffraction catastrophe integral. They are determined by potential functions whose singular mapping manifests as caustic hypersurfaces in control parameter space. By addressing differe...

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Main Authors: Alessandro Zannotti, Falko Diebel, Martin Boguslawski, Cornelia Denz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2017-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Subjects:
caustic
catastrophe theory
nonlinear system
swallowtail catastrophe
butterfly catastrophe
paraxial beams
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa6ecd

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa6ecd

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