Reflection of a wave off a surface
Differential Geometry
2021-11-15 v1
Abstract
Recent advances in twistor theory are applied to geometric optics in . 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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0406212,
title = {Reflection of a wave off a surface},
author = {Brendan Guilfoyle and Wilhelm Klingenberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0406212},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
14 pages, AMS-LATEX