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020 _a9781466580770
020 _a1466580771
082 0 0 _a535
100 1 _aGbur, Greg,
245 1 0 _aSingular optics /
_cGregory J. Gbur.
300 _axviii, 545 pages :
_billustrations (some color) ;
490 1 _aSeries in optics and optoelectronics
500 _a"A Taylor & Francis Book."
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 505-532) and index.
505 0 _aChapter 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.
650 0 _aSingularities (Mathematics)
650 7 _aSingularities (Mathematics)
942 _cBK
999 _c453140
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