Singularities in physics and engineering : properties, methods, and applications / Paramasivam Senthilkumaran.

By: Senthilkumaran, Paramasivam [author.]Contributor(s): Institute of Physics, IOP - EBA (Great Britain) [publisher.]Material type: TextTextSeries: IOP (Series)Release 5 | IOP expanding physics | IOP series in advances in optics, photonics and optoelectronicsPublisher: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color)Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780750316989 ebookSubject(s): Singularities (Mathematics) | Optics -- Mathematics | Mathematical physics | Engineering mathematics | Engineering -- Mathematical models | Optical physics | SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & LightAdditional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 530.1/5 LOC classification: QC20.7.S54 S467 2018ebOnline resources: e-book Full-text access Also available in print.
Contents:
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 singularitie
2. Topological features -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Wavefront shape -- 2.3. Amplitude and phase distribution of an optical vortex beam -- 2.4. Topological charge -- 2.5. Phase contours and zero crossings -- 2.6. Phase gradients of an optical vo
3. Generation and detection methods -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Generation -- 3.3. Detection
4. Propagation characteristics -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Wave equations and solutions -- 4.3. Slowly varying envelope approximation--paraxial Helmholtz equation -- 4.4. Gouy phase -- 4.5. Divergence of singular beams -- 4.6. Near core vortex
5. Internal energy flows -- 5.1. Energy flow -- 5.2. Internal energy flows -- 5.3. Visualizing internal energy flow -- 5.4. Focusing of singular beams--effect of aberrations -- 5.5. Experimental detection -- 5.6. Energy circulations in diffracti
6. Vortices in computational optics -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Diffused illumination in holography -- 6.3. Synthesized diffusers -- 6.4. Phase synthesis in computer generated holograms -- 6.5. Stagnation problem in IFTA -- 6.6. Solution to the
7. Angular momentum of light -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Linear momentum -- 7.3. Angular momentum -- 7.4. Orbital and spin angular momentum of light -- 7.5. Intrinsic and extrinsic angular momenta
8. Applications -- 8.1. Metrology -- 8.2. Collimation testing -- 8.3. Spiral interferometry -- 8.4. Spatial filtering -- 8.5. Focal plane intensity manipulation -- 8.6. STED microscopy -- 8.7. Optical trapping and tweezers -- 8.8. Optically driv
9. Polarization singularities -- 9.1. Polarization of light -- 9.2. Stokes parameters and Poincare sphere representation -- 9.3. Stokes fields -- 9.4. Ellipse field singularities -- 9.5. Vector field singularities -- 9.6. Stokes phase -- 9.7. To
Abstract: Singularities are pervasive throughout nature and this book is one of the first to combine all aspects of singular optics and to give a detailed view of the subject. Singularities in Optical Physics and Engineering give a thorough introduction t

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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 singularitie

2. Topological features -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Wavefront shape -- 2.3. Amplitude and phase distribution of an optical vortex beam -- 2.4. Topological charge -- 2.5. Phase contours and zero crossings -- 2.6. Phase gradients of an optical vo

3. Generation and detection methods -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Generation -- 3.3. Detection

4. Propagation characteristics -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Wave equations and solutions -- 4.3. Slowly varying envelope approximation--paraxial Helmholtz equation -- 4.4. Gouy phase -- 4.5. Divergence of singular beams -- 4.6. Near core vortex

5. Internal energy flows -- 5.1. Energy flow -- 5.2. Internal energy flows -- 5.3. Visualizing internal energy flow -- 5.4. Focusing of singular beams--effect of aberrations -- 5.5. Experimental detection -- 5.6. Energy circulations in diffracti

6. Vortices in computational optics -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Diffused illumination in holography -- 6.3. Synthesized diffusers -- 6.4. Phase synthesis in computer generated holograms -- 6.5. Stagnation problem in IFTA -- 6.6. Solution to the

7. Angular momentum of light -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Linear momentum -- 7.3. Angular momentum -- 7.4. Orbital and spin angular momentum of light -- 7.5. Intrinsic and extrinsic angular momenta

8. Applications -- 8.1. Metrology -- 8.2. Collimation testing -- 8.3. Spiral interferometry -- 8.4. Spatial filtering -- 8.5. Focal plane intensity manipulation -- 8.6. STED microscopy -- 8.7. Optical trapping and tweezers -- 8.8. Optically driv

9. Polarization singularities -- 9.1. Polarization of light -- 9.2. Stokes parameters and Poincare sphere representation -- 9.3. Stokes fields -- 9.4. Ellipse field singularities -- 9.5. Vector field singularities -- 9.6. Stokes phase -- 9.7. To

Singularities are pervasive throughout nature and this book is one of the first to combine all aspects of singular optics and to give a detailed view of the subject. Singularities in Optical Physics and Engineering give a thorough introduction t

High level students and researchers--many of the topics covered have proven industrial applications. To name a few--spiral interferometry, robust beam engineering, optical tweezers, optical communications. All these and many more topics are cove

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Professor P. Senthilkumaran is currently working as a Professor in the Physics Department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITDelhi). He was a senior project officer and received his PhD from IIT Madras in 1995. He is a recipient of the Yo

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