The Opening Rate of the Transverse Cusp Diffraction Catastrophe from Oblate Spheroidal Water Drops

Cleon E. Dean; Philip L. Marston

doi:10.1364/LCOA.1990.WB2

Light and Color in the Open Air
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1990),
paper WB2
•https://doi.org/10.1364/LCOA.1990.WB2

The Opening Rate of the Transverse Cusp Diffraction Catastrophe from Oblate Spheroidal Water Drops

Cleon E. Dean and Philip L. Marston

Light and Color in the Open Air 1990

Washington, D.C. United States
11–13 July 1990
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Session II: Rainbows and Coronae (WB)

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Abstract

The opening rate of the transverse cusp versus oblateness for water drops was calculated. The work suggests the form of a naturally occurring generalized rainbow.

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