"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Vortices in nature -- 1.2. Historical review of optical vortices -- 1.3. Orbital angular momentum of vortex beams2. Generation of optical vortex beams -- 2.1. Typical vortex beams -- 2.2. Methods for vortex generation3. Measuring OAM of vortex beams -- 3.1. Interference or diffraction method -- 3.2…
"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Optical wireless communication -- 1.2. VLC for intelligent transportation -- 1.3. AI-based V2X VLC communications -- 1.4. The autonomous vehicle -- 1.5. VLC/OWC communications to flying objects -- 1.6. VLC V2X research directions -- 1.7. Chapter summary2. Nuts and bolts of V2X VLC systems -- 2.1. V…
"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Field overview -- 1.1. A brief history of OT -- 1.2. Dielectric beads : the standard tools for OT -- 1.3. Optical forces on dielectric beads -- 1.4. Performing measurements with dielectric beads -- 1.5. Absorbing materials and photophoretic forces2. The dipole approximation : Rayleigh regime -- 2.1. Quasi-static approx…
"Version: 20210205"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Topology and physics : a historical overview -- 1.1. Introduction : searching for holes in fields of light -- 1.2. Topology and physics2. Electromagnetism and optics -- 2.1. Electromagnetic fields -- 2.2. Electromagnetic potentials and gauge invariance -- 2.3. Linear and nonlinear optical materials -- 2.4. Polarization…
"Version: 202111"--Title page verso.Revised edition of: Nonlinear optics of photonic crystals and meta-materials.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Photonic crystals -- 1.2. Metamaterials -- 1.3. Negative index of refraction -- 1.4. Perfect lenses -- 1.5. Periodicity -- 1.6. Excitations in nonlinear media -- 1.7. Systems with defects and disorder2. A simple model of non…
"Version: 20210301"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Fundamentals 1. Lasers -- 1.1. Why lasers? -- 1.2. Laser action -- 1.3. Oscillators and amplifiers2. Laser light and laser beams -- 2.1. Laser light -- 2.2. Gaussian beams3. Dispersion -- 3.1. Origins of dispersion -- 3.2. Dispersion, ultrafast pulses, and chirp -- 3.3. Propagation through a dispersive medium -- 3…
"Version: 202111"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Reflection and refraction of light -- 1.1. Basic theory -- 1.2. Virtual lab : reflection and refraction -- 1.3. Real lab : reflection and refraction2. Thin lenses -- 2.1. Basic theory -- 2.2. Virtual lab A : converging lens -- 2.3. Virtual lab B : converging -- 2.4. Real lab : thin lens equation3. Human eye and correctiv…
"Version: 20240101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Singularity -- 1.2. Singularities in science and engineering -- 1.3. Acoustic vortex -- 1.4. Singularities in optics -- 1.5. Amplitude, phase and polarization -- 1.6. Brief historical account of optical phase singularities2. Topological features -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Wavefront shape -- 2.3. …
"Version: 20241101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.8. Introduction to complex light -- 8.1. Bessel beams -- 8.2. Airy beams -- 8.3. Generation of complex light -- 8.4. Applications9. Everyday optical systems and beyond -- 9.1. Barcode readers -- 9.2. Finger print sensors -- 9.3. Pulse oximeters -- 9.4. Interferometry based measurements -- Appendix A. Using Zemax or OSLO t…
"Version: 20210207"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Essentials of quantum mechanics -- 1.3. Ward's succinct perspectives -- 1.4. The philosophy and the physics of quantum entanglement -- 1.5. Quantum entanglement as a discipline -- 1.6. Quantum entanglement engineering and applications -- 1.7. Intent2. Dirac's notation…