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

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From science fiction death rays to supermarket scanners, lasers have become deeply embedded in our daily lives and our culture. But in recent decades the standard laser beam has evolved into an array of more specialized light beams with a variety of strange and counterintuitive properties. Some of t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simon, David S. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2016]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 3.
IOP concise physics.
Temas:
Lasers.
Optics.
Light.
Laser Physics.
Laser Technology and Holography.
Applied Physics.
SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Lasers & Photonics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction : from death rays to smartphones
  • 2. Optical propagation
  • 2.1. Electromagnetic fields
  • 2.2. Helmholtz equation and wave optics
  • 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
  • 5. Bessel beams, self-healing, and diffraction-free propagation
  • 5.1. Bessel beams
  • 5.2. Optical petal structures
  • 5.3. More non-diffracting beams : Mathieu beams
  • 5.4. Optical tractor beams and conveyor belts
  • 5.5. Trojan states
  • 5.6. Localized waves
  • 6. Airy beams and self-acceleration
  • 6.1. Airy beams
  • 6.2. Self-accelerating beams and optical boomerangs
  • 6.3. 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 of entangled beams
  • 9. Optical knots and links
  • 9.1. From knotted vortex atoms to knotted light
  • 9.2. Knotted vortex lines
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Appendix. Mathematical reference.

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