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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 14, Issue 7, Pages 3039-3044Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.003039
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When three or more plane waves overlap in space, complete destructive interference occurs on nodal lines, also called phase singularities or optical vortices. For super positions of three plane waves, the vortices are straight, parallel lines. For four plane waves the vortices form an array of closed or open loops. For five or more plane waves the loops are irregular. We illustrate these patterns numerically and experimentally and explain the three-, four- and five-wave topologies with a phasor argument. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.
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