A guided tour of light beams : from lasers to optical knots /

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This book provides an introductory overview of a variety of novel light beams, covering their basic physics and optics, and discussing new cutting-edge applications to which they give rise in science, technology, and medicine. Following a short introduction, topics include optical propagation, Gauss...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simon, David S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2020]
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:IOP ebooks. 2020 collection.
Temas:
Lasers.
Optics.
Light.
Optical physics.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Optics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction : from death rays to smartphones
  • 2. Optical propagation
  • 2.1. Electromagnetic fields
  • 2.2. Helmholtz equation and wave optics
  • 2.3. Looking forward
  • 3. Gaussian beams and lasers
  • 3.1. Lasers
  • 3.2. Gaussian beams
  • 3.3. Coherent and squeezed states
  • 3.4. Optical tweezers
  • 4. Orbital angular momentum and Laguerre-Gauss beams
  • 4.1. Polarization and angular momentum in optics
  • 4.2. Generation and detection of Laguerre-Gauss beams
  • 4.3. Optical spanners and micropumps
  • 4.4. Harnessing OAM for measurement
  • 4.5. Vortex beams on a chip
  • 5. Bessel beams, self-healing, and diffraction-free propagation
  • 5.1. Bessel beams
  • 5.2. Optical petal structures
  • 5.3. Dark hollow beams
  • 5.4. More nondiffracting beams : Mathieu beams
  • 5.5. Optical tractor beams, conveyor belts, and solenoidal beams
  • 5.6. Optical bottles
  • 5.7. Trojan states
  • 5.8. Localized waves
  • 6. Airy beams and self-acceleration
  • 6.1. Airy beams
  • 6.2. Self-accelerating beams and optical boomerangs
  • 6.3. Arbitrary trajectories
  • 6.4. Applications
  • 7. Further variations
  • 7.1. Separable solutions
  • 7.2. Hermite-Gauss beams
  • 7.3. Ince-Gauss beams
  • 7.4. Parabolic beams
  • 7.5. Elegant beams
  • 7.6. Lorentz beams
  • 8. Entangled beams
  • 8.1. Separability and entanglement
  • 8.2. Creating entanglement
  • 8.3. Applications : coincidence counting and quantum cryptography
  • 8.4. Applications : aberration and dispersion cancelation, and turbulence mitigation
  • 9. Pin-like beams and turbulence
  • 9.1. Turbulence
  • 9.2. Pin-like beams
  • 10. New frontiers
  • 10.1. From knotted vortex atoms to knotted light
  • 10.2. Knotted vortex lines
  • 10.3. Optical bound states in the continuum
  • 11. Conclusion.

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