Gbur, Greg,

Singular optics / Gregory J. Gbur. - 1 online resource - Series in Optics and optoelectronics . - Series in optics and optoelectronics (CRC Press) .

"A Taylor & Francis Book"--cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-532) and index.

Chapter 1. Introduction : vortices in nature -- Chapter 2. Anatomy of a vortex beam -- Chapter 3. Generic properties of phase singluarities -- Chapter 4. Generation and detection of optical vortices -- Chapter 5. Angular momentum of light -- Chapter 6. Applications of optical vortices -- Chapter 7. Polarization singularities -- Chapter 8. Singularities of the poynting vector -- Chapter 9. Coherence singularities -- Chapter 10. Singularities and vortices in quantum optics -- Chapter 11. Vortices in random wavefields -- Chapter 12. Unusual singularities and topological tricks.

9781315374260 9781315337623 9781315356686

10.1201/9781315374260 doi


Singularities (Mathematics)

QA614.58 / .S56 2017

516.35 / G291