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, as well as 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.
Key Features
- Covers a broad range of exotic optical beams and their applications
- Many have never been covered in detail outside the original research literature
- Applications range from nanotechnology to medical diagnostics
- Written at an advanced undergraduate level but covering a number of cutting-edge research topics
- Of interest to a broad range of readers in areas such as physics, optics, engineering, and biomedical research
Author(s): David S. Simon
Edition: 2
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 136
City: Bristol
PRELIMS.pdf
Preface
Acknowledgments
Author biography
David S Simon
CH001.pdf
Chapter 1 Introduction: from death rays to smartphones
References
CH002.pdf
Chapter 2 Optical propagation
2.1 Electromagnetic fields
2.2 Helmholtz equation and wave optics
2.3 Looking forward
References
CH003.pdf
Chapter 3 Gaussian beams and lasers
3.1 Lasers
3.2 Gaussian beams
3.3 Coherent and squeezed states
3.4 Optical tweezers
References
CH004.pdf
Chapter 4 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 chip
References
CH005.pdf
Chapter 5 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 waves
References
CH006.pdf
Chapter 6 Airy beams and self-acceleration
6.1 Airy beams
6.2 Self-accelerating beams and optical boomerangs
6.3 Arbitrary trajectories
6.4 Applications
References
CH007.pdf
Chapter 7 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 beams
References
CH008.pdf
Chapter 8 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 mitigation
References
CH009.pdf
Chapter 9 Pin-like beams and turbulence
9.1 Turbulence
9.2 Pin-like beams
References
CH010.pdf
Chapter 10 New frontiers
10.1 From knotted vortex atoms to knotted light
10.2 Knotted vortex lines
10.3 Optical bound states in the continuum
References
CH011.pdf
Chapter 11 Conclusion
References
APP1.pdf
Chapter
A.1 Gaussians
A.2 Laguerre polynomials
A.3 Bessel functions
A.4 Hermite polynomials
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