On the validity of the paraxial eikonal in catastrophe optics

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/17/1/013zbMath0533.58007OpenAlexW1973502530MaRDI QIDQ3316236

Gerhard Dangelmayr, Francis John Wright

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/17/1/013

zbMATH Keywords

caustic diffractioneikonal singularities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Catastrophe theory (58K35) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99) Differentiable maps on manifolds (58C25) Geometric optics (78A05)