%0 Journal Article
%A Sánchez Soto, Luis Lorenzo
%A Monzón Serrano, Juan José
%A Leuchs, Gerd
%T Anticaustics in a Fabry-Perot interferometer
%D 2022
%@ 1084-7529
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/72946
%X We address the response of a Fabry-Perot interferometer to a monochromatic point source. We calculate the anti -caustics (that is, the virtual wavefronts of null path difference) resulting from the successive internal reflections occurring in the system. They turn out to be a family of ellipsoids (or hyperboloids) of revolution, which allows us to reinterpret the operation of the Fabry-Perot interferometer from a geometrical point of view that facilitates comparison with other apparently disparate arrangements, such as Young's double slit.
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