Wavefronts and caustic of a spherical wave reflected by an arbitrary smooth surface

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• JOSA A, Vol. 26 Issue 11, pp.2295-2305 (2009)
• Román-Hernández, Edwin; Santiago-Santiago, José Guadalupe; Silva-Ortigoza, Gilberto; Silva-Ortigoza, Ramón
• The aim of the present work is to obtain expressions for both the wavefront train and the caustic associated with the light rays reflected by an arbitrary smooth surface after being...

Optical vortices and singularities due to interference in atomic radiation near a mirror

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• Optics Letters, Vol. 34 Issue 22, pp.3595-3597 (2009)
• Li, Xin; Shu, Jie; Arnoldus, Henk F
• We consider radiation emitted by an electric dipole close to a mirror. We have studied the field lines of the Poynting vector, representing the flow lines of the electromagnetic...