Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Münster, Germany
- Presents a comprehensive study on caustic light
- Explains the origins of rogue waves
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Back Matter
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About this book
Caustics are natural phenomena, forming light patterns in rainbows or through drinking glasses, and creating light networks at the bottom of swimming pools. Only in recent years have scientists started to artificially create simple caustics with laser light. However, these realizations have already contributed to progress in advanced imaging, lithography, and micro-manipulation.
In this book, Alessandro Zannotti pioneers caustics in many ways, establishing the field of artificial caustic optics. He employs caustic design to customize high-intensity laser light. This is of great relevance for laser-based machining, sensing, microscopy, and secure communication. The author also solves a long standing problem concerning the origin of rogue waves which appear naturally in the sea and can have disastrous consequences. By means of a far-reaching optical analogy, he identifies scattering of caustics in random media as the origin of rogue waves, and shows how nonlinear light-matter interaction increases their probability.Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Caustic Light in Nonlinear Photonic Media
Authors: Alessandro Zannotti
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53088-4
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 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53087-7Published: 27 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53090-7Published: 28 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53088-4Published: 26 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 180
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Optical and Electronic Materials, Oceanography, Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics