Interference and Dislocation Patterns in Linear Waves

Michael Berry

doi:10.1364/NLDOS.1992.WC1

Nonlinear Dynamics in Optical Systems
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1992),
paper WC1
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Interference and Dislocation Patterns in Linear Waves

Michael Berry

Nonlinear Dynamics in Optical Systems 1992

Alpbach Austria
22–26 June 1992
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Abstract

Phase singularities (dislocations and disclinations) are generic in waves, linear or not, and occur in light, sound, microwaves, quantum waves and the tides. They are complementary to the caustic singularities of geometrical optics.

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