Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

Geometrical optics and dynamic programming

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

Dynamic programming applied to geometrical optics leads to a nonlinear partial differential equation for the path taken by a light ray in any optical system.

© 1976 Optical Society of America

Full Article  |  PDF Article
More Like This
Time-dependent geometrical optics

J. S. Desjardins
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(10) 1042-1047 (1976)

Light propagation in optical waveguides: a dynamic programming approach

Maria Luisa Calvo and Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14(4) 872-881 (1997)

Caustic surfaces and the structure of the geometrical image

Orestes N. Stavroudis and Ronald C. Fronczek
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(8) 795-800 (1976)

Cited By

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Cited by links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Equations (50)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Equations are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved