Optical scalars and congruences of light rays: A link between beams and analytic aberrations
| Autor: | Salvador Alejandro Juárez-Reyes, Omar de Jesús Cabrera-Rosas, Ernesto Espíndola-Ramos, Gilberto Silva-Ortigoza, Citlalli Teresa Sosa-Sánchez, Israel Julián-Macías, Paula Ortega-Vidals |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Physics Geodesic General relativity business.industry Physics::Optics 02 engineering and technology Function (mathematics) Congruence relation 01 natural sciences Ray 010309 optics 020210 optoelectronics & photonics Optics Optical scalars 0103 physical sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Twist business Mathematical physics |
| Zdroj: | Physical Review A. 96 |
| ISSN: | 2469-9934 2469-9926 |
| Popis: | Optical scalars are functions designed to analyze the behavior of geodesic congruences in general relativity. Refracted rays are three-dimensional congruences of light rays and they can be studied with this formalism. In this work we obtain the optical scalars for such congruences: the expansion $\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Theta}}$, the twist $\ensuremath{\omega}$, and the shear $\ensuremath{\kappa}$. Furthermore, we apply this machinery to study the aberrations of wavefronts to establish a link between them and the aberration function $W$. |
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