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

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"Version: 20201101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction : from death rays to smartphones -- 2. Optical propagation -- 2.1. Electromagnetic fields -- 2.2. Helmholtz equation and wave optics -- 2.3. Looking forward3. Gaussian beams and lasers -- 3.1. Lasers -- 3.2. Gaussian beams -- 3.3. Coherent and squeezed states -- 3.4. Optical tweezers4. 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 chip5. 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 waves6. Airy beams and self-acceleration -- 6.1. Airy beams -- 6.2. Self-accelerating beams and optical boomerangs -- 6.3. Arbitrary trajectories -- 6.4. Applications7. 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 beams8. 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 mitigation9. Pin-like beams and turbulence -- 9.1. Turbulence -- 9.2. Pin-like beams10. 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.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, Gaussian beams and lasers, orbital angular momentum and Laguerre-Gauss beams, Bessel and Airy beams, and other types of optical beams. Later chapters focus on entangled and pin-like beams and beam propagation through turbulence, before concluding with a discussion of the new frontiers in the field. It is an ideal guide for undergraduate students, beginning graduate students, or researchers who are not experts in this field.Undergraduate and beginning graduate students.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.David Simon is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stonehill College in Easton, MA, and a visiting researcher at Boston University. After a BS from Ohio State University, he obtained PhD's in physics and electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins and Boston University. His research is primarily in the area of quantum optics.Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 4, 2020).

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1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).

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English

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9780750334679

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Second edition.

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Optical physics.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Optics.
Light.
Lasers.
Optics.

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David S. Simon.

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