Anticaustics in a Fabry-Perot interferometer
Optics
2022-11-23 v1
Abstract
We address the response of a Fabry-Perot interferometer to a monochromatic point source. We calculate the anticaustics (that is, the virtual wavefronts of null path difference) resulting from the successive internal reflections occurring in the system. They turn to be a family of ellipsoids (or hyperboloids) of revolution, which allows us to reinterpret the operation of the Fabry-Perot from a geometrical point of view that facilitates comparison with other apparently disparate arrangements, such as Young's double slit.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2210.10078,
title = {Anticaustics in a Fabry-Perot interferometer},
author = {L. L. Sanchez-Soto and J. J. Monzon and G. Leuchs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.10078},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
Accepted in J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, special issue 100 years of Emil Wolf