A method to construct refracting profiles

DOI10.1088/0266-5611/20/1/013MaRDI QIDQ4469958zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nieves Alamo, Carlos Criado

Publication date 22 June 2004

Published in Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0404032

zbMATH Keywords

Cartesian ovalsopticsrefractionwave fronts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

Abstract: We propose an original method for determining suitable refracting profiles between two media to solve two related problems: to produce a given wave front from a single point source after refraction at the refracting profile, and to focus a given wave front in a fixed point. These profiles are obtained as envelopes of specific families of Cartesian ovals. We study the singularities of these profiles and give a method to construct them from the data of the associated caustic.

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