Singular optics.
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| Language: | English |
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Crc Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Series in optics and optoelectronics
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series Preface; Preface; CHAPTER 1: Introduction: Vortices in Nature; CHAPTER 2: Anatomy of a Vortex Beam; 2.1 MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS AND PARAXIAL BEAMS; 2.2 LAGUERRE-GAUSS PARAXIAL BEAMS; 2.3 PROPERTIES OF PHASE SINGULARITIES; 2.4 DERIVATION OF HIGHER-ORDER GAUSSIAN BEAMS; 2.5 EXERCISES; CHAPTER 3: Generic Properties of Phase Singularities; 3.1 YOUNG'S INTERFEROMETER AND PHASE SINGULARITIES; 3.2 TYPICAL FORMS OF WAVE DISLOCATIONS; 3.2.1 Screw Dislocation; 3.2.2 Edge Dislocation; 3.2.3 Mixed Edge-Screw Dislocations.
- 3.3 CRYSTAL DISLOCATIONS AND WAVEFRONTS3.4 TOPOLOGICAL CHARGE AND INDEX; 3.5 CREATION AND ANNIHILATION EVENTS; 3.6 EXERCISES; CHAPTER 4: Generation and Detection of Optical Vortices; 4.1 GENERATION; 4.1.1 Spiral Phase Plate; 4.1.2 Mode Conversion; 4.1.3 Computer-Generated Holograms; 4.1.4 Direct Laser Generation; 4.1.5 Nonuniform Polarization; 4.1.6 Other Methods; 4.2 DETECTION; 4.2.1 Interference-Based Methods; 4.2.2 Diffraction-Based Method; 4.2.3 Shack-Hartmann Method; 4.2.4 Computer-Generated Holograms and Modans; 4.2.5 Geometrical Mode Separation; 4.3 METHOD OF STATIONARY PHASE.
- 4.4 EXERCISESCHAPTER 5: Angular Momentum of Light; 5.1 MOMENTUM AND ANGULAR MOMENTUM IN WAVEFIELDS; 5.2 ORBITAL AND SPIN ANGULAR MOMENTUM; 5.3 ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN BEAMS; 5.4 INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC ANGULAR MOMENTUM; 5.5 TRAPPING FORCES; 5.6 MOMENTUM IN MATTER AND THE ABRAHAM-MINKOWSKI CONTROVERSY; 5.7 EXERCISES; CHAPTER 6: Applications of Optical Vortices; 6.1 MICROMANIPULATION, SPANNING, AND TRAPPING; 6.2 OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; 6.3 PHASE RETRIEVAL; 6.4 CORONOGRAPH; 6.5 SIGNAL PROCESSING AND EDGE DETECTION; 6.6 ROTATIONAL DOPPLER SHIFTS; 6.7 EXERCISES.
- CHAPTER 7: Polarization Singularities7.1 BASICS OF POLARIZATION IN OPTICAL WAVEFIELDS; 7.1.1 Linear Polarization; 7.1.2 Circular Polarization; 7.2 STOKES PARAMETERS AND THE POINCARÉ SPHERE; 7.3 POLARIZATION SINGULARITIES: C-POINTS AND L-LINES; 7.4 GENERIC FEATURES OF POLARIZATION SINGULARITIES; 7.5 TOPOLOGICAL REACTIONS OF POLARIZATION SINGULARITIES; 7.6 HIGHER-ORDER POLARIZATION SINGULARITIES; 7.7 NONUNIFORMLY POLARIZED BEAMS; 7.8 POINCARÉ BEAMS; 7.9 POINCARÉ VORTICES; 7.10 PARTIALLY POLARIZED LIGHT AND SINGULARITIES OF THE CLEAR SKY; 7.11 THE PANCHARATNAM PHASE.
- 7.12 SECOND-ORDER TENSOR FIELDS AND THEIR SINGULARITIES7.13 THE HAIRY BALL THEOREM; 7.14 EXERCISES; CHAPTER 8: Singularities of the Poynting Vector; 8.1 POWER FLOW IN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; 8.2 CONCEPTUAL DIFFICULTIES WITH THE POYNTING VECTOR; 8.3 THE FIRST OPTICAL VORTEX; 8.4 OTHER EARLY OBSERVATIONS OF POYNTING SINGULARITIES; 8.5 GENERIC PROPERTIES OF POYNTING VECTOR SINGULARITIES; 8.6 SINGULARITIES, TRANSMISSION, AND RADIATION; 8.7 EXERCISES; CHAPTER 9: Coherence Singularities; 9.1 OPTICAL COHERENCE; 9.2 SINGULARITIES OF CORRELATION FUNCTIONS.