02555oam 2200493I 450 991015318520332120240513145226.01-315-35668-61-315-37426-91-4665-8078-X10.1201/9781315374260 (CKB)3710000000960811(MiAaPQ)EBC4748354(MiAaPQ)EBC6401967(OCoLC)966374440(EXLCZ)99371000000096081120180706h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierSingular optics /Gregory J. Gbur1st ed.Boca Raton :CRC Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (564 pages) illustrations (some color), photographsSeries in optics and optoelectronics"A Taylor & Francis Book"--cover.1-4665-8077-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages [505]-532) and index.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.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.Series in optics and optoelectronics (CRC Press)Singularities (Mathematics)Singularities (Mathematics)535Gbur Greg1193397FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910153185203321Singular optics2884960UNINA