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Record Nr.

UNINA9910153185203321

Autore

Gbur Greg

Titolo

Singular optics / / Gregory J. Gbur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-315-35668-6

1-315-37426-9

1-4665-8078-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (564 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs

Collana

Series in optics and optoelectronics

Disciplina

535

Soggetti

Singularities (Mathematics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Taylor & Francis Book"--cover.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This book 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 non-zero portions of the wavefield, 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.