Authors:
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph. D. thesis by the University of Muenster, Germany
- Awarded with the WWU Dissertation Award for best PhD thesis in Physics 2019, University of Muenster, and the Research Award 2020 of the Industrial Club Duesseldorf and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
- Guides from fundamentals of singular optics to its advanced modulation, analysis and application
- Comprehensive and thorough description of a plethora of different approaches to structure light and its singularities
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Structured singular light is an ubiquitous phenomenon. It is not only created when light refracts at a water surface but can also be found in the blue daytime sky. Such light fields include a spatially varying amplitude, phase, or polarization, enabling the occurrence of optical singularities. As structurally stable units of the light field, these singularities are particularly interesting since they determine its topology.
In this excellent book, the author presents a pioneering study of structured singular light, thereby contributing many original approaches. Especially in the field of polarization and its rich number of different types of singularities the book defines and drives a completely new field.
The work demonstrates how to control complex polarization singularity networks and their propagation. Additionally, the author pioneers tightly focusing vectorial beams, also developing an urgently needed detection scheme for three-dimensional nanoscale polarization structures. She also studies classical spatial entanglement using structured light, introducing entanglement beating and paraxial spin-orbit-coupling.
The book is hallmarked by its comprehensive and thorough way of describing a plethora of different approaches to structure light by amplitude, phase and polarization, as well as the important role of optical singularities.
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute of Applied Physics, University of Muenster, Münster, Germany
Eileen Otte
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Structured Singular Light Fields
Authors: Eileen Otte
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63715-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63714-9Published: 22 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63717-0Published: 23 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63715-6Published: 21 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 170
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 60 illustrations in colour
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Quantum Physics, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics