Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-1997
Publication Title
Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision
Abstract
We examine scattering of a family of initially parallel diagonally incident rays by a dielectric circular cylinder and show that the interior and exterior caustics that occur are qualitatively identical to those produced at normal incidence. We find, however, that (1) varying the plane-wave tilt angle has the same effect on the caustics as varying the refractive index of the cylinder at normal incidence and (2) high-order interior caustics are visible because of larger internal-reflection Fresnel coefficients at diagonal incidence than at normal incidence. We also observe noncaustic ray trajectories produced by the sharp peaking of internal-reflection Fresnel coefficients at large ray impact parameters, as well as another class of internal caustics produced by scattering from inhomogeneities in our glass cylinder. (C) 1997 Optical Society of America.
Repository Citation
Adler, Charles L.; Lock, James A.; Stone, Bradley R.; and Garcia, Claudio J., "High-Order Interior Caustics Produced in Scattering of a Diagonally Incident Plane Wave by a Circular Cylinder" (1997). Physics Faculty Publications. 61.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/sciphysics_facpub/61
Original Citation
Adler, C. L., James A. Lock, Bradley R. Stone, and Claudio J. Garcia. "High-Order Interior Caustics Produced in Scattering of a Diagonally Incident Plane Wave by a Circular Cylinder." Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision 14 (1997): 1305-1315.
DOI
10.1364/JOSAA.14.001305
Version
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Publisher's Statement
This paper was published in Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics Image Science and Vision and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josaa/abstract.cfm?URI=josaa-14-6-1305. Systematic or multiple reproduction or distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.
Volume
14
Issue
6
