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Feasibilities of interferometric and chromascopic techniques in study of phase singularities
Oleg V Angelsky1, Steen G Hanson, Alexander P Maksimyak
1Department of Correlation Optics, Chernivtsi University, 2 Kotsyubinsky Street, Chernivtsi 58012, Ukraine.
Abstract:
The feasibilities of using interferometric and chromascopic techniques in the diagnostics of phase singularities and in the study of a phase structure of the field in their vicinity are demonstrated. The peculiar evolution of singularities into caustics produced by phase elements of singularity-generating objects of spherical and cylindrical shape is studied.
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