The Catastrophe Optics of Atmospheric Twinkling and Reflections from Rippling Water

Michael Berry

doi:10.1364/MO.1986.ThB1

Topical Meeting on Meteorological Optics
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1986),
paper ThB1
•https://doi.org/10.1364/MO.1986.ThB1

The Catastrophe Optics of Atmospheric Twinkling and Reflections from Rippling Water

Michael Berry

Meteorological Optics 1986

Honolulu, Hawaii United States
3–4 April 1986
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Abstract

What I aim to show is that a large and varied class of natural optical phenomena can be understood in a unified way with the aid of one concept: the caustic. This is an idea from geometrical optics but its usefulness is not restricted to that approximation.

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