Abstract
We show that there is a large class of plane curves which never appear in partial form, as curves along which destructive interference takes place. These curves have an analytic property which, when combined with an analytic property of the free light field, gives rise to patterns of interference that are commonly observed.
© 1977 Optical Society of America
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