Local light-ray rotation
Optics
2009-05-27 v4
Abstract
We present a sheet structure that rotates the local ray direction through an arbitrary angle around the sheet normal. The sheet structure consists of two parallel Dove-prism sheets, each of which flips one component of the local direction of transmitted light rays. Together, the two sheets rotate transmitted light rays around the sheet normal. We show that the direction under which a point light source is seen is given by a Mobius transform. We illustrate some of the properties with movies calculated by ray-tracing software.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0809.2646,
title = {Local light-ray rotation},
author = {Alasdair C. Hamilton and Bhuvanesh Sundar and John Nelson and Johannes Courtial},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.2646},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, 6 figures