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Caustics, Catastrophes and Wave Fields

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Until recently caustics have been treated predominantly on an elementary level like geometrical objects — the envelopes of families of rays. However, physical measurements treat caustics as wave objects, namely, diffuse regions with enhanced amplitude of the wave field.

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  2. Power Engineering Institute, Moscow, Russia

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Kravtsov, Y.A., Orlov, Y.I. (1999). Introduction. In: Caustics, Catastrophes and Wave Fields. Springer Series on Wave Phenomena, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59887-6_1

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