Topology of optical vortex lines formed by the interference of three, four, and five plane waves
When three or more plane waves overlap in space, complete destructive interference occurs on nodal lines, also called phase singularities or optical vortices. For super positions of three plane waves, the vortices are straight, parallel lines. For four plane waves the vortices form an array of close...
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2006.
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