Scattering of White Light from Oblate Water Drops Near Rainbows and Other Diffraction Catastrophes

Harry J. Simpson; Philip L. Marston

doi:10.1364/LCOA.1990.WB5

Light and Color in the Open Air
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1990),
paper WB5
•https://doi.org/10.1364/LCOA.1990.WB5

Scattering of White Light from Oblate Water Drops Near Rainbows and Other Diffraction Catastrophes

Harry J. Simpson 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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H. J. Simpson and P. L. Marston, "Scattering of White Light from Oblate Water Drops Near Rainbows and Other Diffraction Catastrophes," in Light and Color in the Open Air, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1990), paper WB5.

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Abstract

Rainbow, transverse cusp, and hyperbolic umbilic caustic patterns of levitated drops in white light were photographed. Observations suggest what natural generalized rainbows would look like.

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