Reflection of a wave off a surface

DOI10.1007/S00022-005-0022-0MaRDI QIDQ2490671zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brendan Guilfoyle, Wilhelm Klingenberg

Publication date 18 May 2006

Published in Journal of Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406212

zbMATH Keywords

line congruencereflection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Line geometries and their generalizations (51M30) Classical or axiomatic geometry and physics (51P05) Geometric optics (78A05)

Abstract: Recent advances in twistor theory are applied to geometric optics in ${BbbR}^3$. The general formulae for reflection of a wavefront in a surface are derived and in three special cases explicit descriptions are provided: when the reflecting surface is a plane, when the incoming wave is a plane and when the incoming wave is spherical. In each case particular examples are computed exactly and the results plotted to illustrate the outgoing wavefront.

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