Caustics of the vortex beams generated by vortex lenses and vortex axicons

Kharitonov, SI; Khonina, SN; Volotovskiy, SG; Kazanskiy, NL

Khonina, SN (corresponding author), RAS, IPSI RAS Branch FSRC Crystallog & Photon, Molodogvardeyskaya St 151, Samara 443001, Russia.; Khonina, SN (corresponding author), Samara Natl Res Univ, Moskovskoye Shosse 34, Samara 443086, Russia.

JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION, 2020; 37 (3): 476

Abstract

In this work, the propagation of vortex beams is treated using a catastrophe theory approach. Analytic expressions are deduced to describe caustic sur......

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