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200 10$aCaustic Light in Nonlinear Photonic Media /$fby Alessandro Zannotti
205   $a1st ed. 2020.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2020.
215   $a1 online resource (XIII, 180 p. 70 illus., 59 illus. in color.) 
225 1 $aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5061
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327   $aIntroduction and Motivation -- Realization and Exploration of Structured Light and Photonic Structures -- Elementary Optical Catastrophes and Caustic-Based Photonic Structures -- Propagation-Invariant Caustics -- Caustic Networks and Rogue Waves -- Conclusion and Outlook.
330   $aCaustics are natural phenomena, forming light patterns in rainbows or through drinking glasses, and creating light networks at the bottom of swimming pools. Only in recent years have scientists started to artificially create simple caustics with laser light. However, these realizations have already contributed to progress in advanced imaging, lithography, and micro-manipulation. In this book, Alessandro Zannotti pioneers caustics in many ways, establishing the field of artificial caustic optics. He employs caustic design to customize high-intensity laser light. This is of great relevance for laser-based machining, sensing, microscopy, and secure communication. The author also solves a long standing problem concerning the origin of rogue waves which appear naturally in the sea and can have disastrous consequences. By means of a far-reaching optical analogy, he identifies scattering of caustics in random media as the origin of rogue waves, and shows how nonlinear light-matterinteraction increases their probability.
410  0$aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,$x2190-5061
606   $aOptics
606   $aOptical materials
606   $aOceanography
606   $aLasers
606   $aNonlinear Optics
606   $aGeometrical optics
606   $aWave theory of light
606   $aOptics and Photonics
606   $aOptical Materials
606   $aOcean Sciences
606   $aLaser-Matter Interaction
606   $aNonlinear Optics
606   $aClassical Optics, Geometric and Wave optics
615  0$aOptics.
615  0$aOptical materials.
615  0$aOceanography.
615  0$aLasers.
615  0$aNonlinear Optics.
615  0$aGeometrical optics.
615  0$aWave theory of light.
615 14$aOptics and Photonics.
615 24$aOptical Materials.
615 24$aOcean Sciences.
615 24$aLaser-Matter Interaction.
615 24$aNonlinear Optics.
615 24$aClassical Optics, Geometric and Wave optics.
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