Singular optics / / Gregory J. Gbur

• Autore: Gbur Greg
• Pubblicazione: Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (564 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs
• Disciplina: 535
• Soggetto topico: Singularities (Mathematics)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Singular optics
• ISBN: 1-315-35668-6; 1-315-37426-9; 1-4665-8078-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910153185203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Series in optics and optoelectronics (CRC Press)