Download or read book International Conference on Singular Optics written by Marat Samuilovich Soskin and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These papers were taken from a conference on singular optics. They address topics such as: paraxial beams of spinning light; diffraction catastrophes and wave caustics of multimode fibres; and visualization of the phase singularities in wavefront sensors.