Singular optics /
This book focuses on the various forms of wavefieid singularities, including optical vortices and polarization singularities, as well as orbital angular momentum and associated applications. It highlights how an understanding of singular optics provides a completely different way to look at light. W...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton :
CRC Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Series in optics and optoelectronics (CRC Press)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book focuses on the various forms of wavefieid singularities, including optical vortices and polarization singularities, as well as orbital angular momentum and associated applications. It 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 nonzero portions of the wavefieid, 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. Book jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : text file, PDF. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-532) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781315374260 1315374269 9781466580770 1466580771 9781315356686 1315356686 9781315337623 1315337622 9781466580787 146658078X |