Caustic diffraction catastrophes: Optical swallowtail and butterfly beams

A. Zannotti; F. Diebel; M. Boguslawski; C. Denz

doi:10.1364/NP.2016.NW2A.2

Photonics and Fiber Technology 2016 (ACOFT, BGPP, NP)
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2016),
paper NW2A.2
•https://doi.org/10.1364/NP.2016.NW2A.2

Caustic diffraction catastrophes: Optical swallowtail and butterfly beams

A. Zannotti, F. Diebel, M. Boguslawski, and C. Denz

Nonlinear Photonics 2016

Sydney Australia
5–8 September 2016
ISBN: 978-1-943580-17-0

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A. Zannotti, F. Diebel, M. Boguslawski, and C. Denz, "Caustic diffraction catastrophes: Optical swallowtail and butterfly beams," in Photonics and Fiber Technology 2016 (ACOFT, BGPP, NP), OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2016), paper NW2A.2.

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Abstract

We transfer higher order caustic catastrophes to optics, thus extending Airy and Pearcey by paraxial swallowtail and butterfly beams. Their caustics provide outstanding light trajectories for optical induction of refractive index structures.

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