Singular optics / Gregory J. Gbur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gbur, Greg, author.

Series:

Series in optics and optoelectronics (CRC Press)

Series in optics and optoelectronics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Singularities (Mathematics).

Physical Description:

xviii, 545 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2017]

Summary:

This book focuses on the various forms of wavefieid singularities, including optical vortices and polarization singularities, as well as orbital angular momentum and associated applications. It highlights how an understanding of singular optics provides a completely different way to look at light. Whereas traditional optics focuses on the shape and structure of the nonzero portions of the wavefieid, singular optics describes a wave's properties from its null regions. The contents cover the three main areas of the field: the study of generic features of wavefields, determination of unusual properties of vortices and wavefields that contain singularities, and practical applications of vortices and other singularities. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction : vortices in nature

Chapter 2. Anatomy of a vortex beam

Chapter 3. Generic properties of phase singluarities

Chapter 4. Generation and detection of optical vortices

Chapter 5. Angular momentum of light

Chapter 6. Applications of optical vortices

Chapter 7. Polarization singularities

Chapter 8. Singularities of the poynting vector

Chapter 9. Coherence singularities

Chapter 10. Singularities and vortices in quantum optics

Chapter 11. Vortices in random wavefields

Chapter 12. Unusual singularities and topological tricks.

Notes:

"A Taylor & Francis Book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-532) and index.

ISBN:

9781466580770

1466580771

OCLC:

953439578

Publisher Number:

99974741175