Laser beam propagation : generation and propagation of customized light / edited by Andrew Forbes, CSIR National Laser Centre, Pretoria, South Africa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forbes, Andrew D. W., editor. of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laser beams.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do laser beams propagate? Innovative discoveries involving laser beams and their propagation properties are at the heart of Laser Beam Propagation: Generation and Propagation of Customized Light. This book captures the essence of laser beam propagation. Divided into three parts, it explores the fundamentals of how laser beams propagate, and provides novel methods to describe and characterize general laser beams. Part one covers the physical optics approach to the propagation of optical waves, the concept of plane waves, the mathematical description of diffraction

Contents:

Front Cover; Contents; Editor; Preface; Contributors; Section I - Back to Basics; Chapter 1 - Optical Waves; Chapter 2 - From Classical to Quantum Optics; Chapter 3 - Time Domain Laser Beam Propagation; Section II - Generation and Characterization of Laser Beams; Chapter 4 - Spatial Laser Beam Characterization; Chapter 5 - Characterization of Time Domain Pulses; Chapter 6 - Generation of Laser Beams by Digital Holograms; Section III - Novel Laser Beams; Chapter 7 - Flat-Top Beams; Chapter 8 - Helmholtz-Gauss Beams; Chapter 9 - Vector Beams; Chapter 10 - Low-Coherence Laser Beams

Chapter 11 - Orbital Angular Momentum of LightBack Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 28, 2014).

ISBN:

9781040079508

1040079504

9780429194061

0429194064

9781466554405

1466554401

OCLC:

870946232