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Structured Light and Its Applications
An Introduction to Phase-Structured Beams and Nanoscale Optical Forces

Biosensors, targeted medicine delivery, and plastic electronics are possible due to structured light; this book is a lantern into a bright future!

David L. Andrews (Author)

9780123740274, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 2 June 2008

400 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.72 kg

New possibilities have recently emerged for producing optical beams with complex and intricate structures, and for the non-contact optical manipulation of matter. Structured Light and Its Applications fully describes the electromagnetic theory, optical properties, methods and applications associated with this new technology. Detailed discussions are given of unique beam characteristics, such as optical vortices and other wavefront structures, the associated phase properties and photonic aspects, along with applications ranging from cold atom manipulation to optically driven micromachines.

Features include:

  • Comprehensive and authoritative treatments of the latest research in this area of nanophotonics, written by the leading researchers
  • Accounts of numerous microfluidics, nanofabrication, quantum informatics and optical manipulation applications
  • Coverage that fully spans the subject area, from fundamental theory and simulations to experimental methods and results

Graduate students and established researchers in academia, national laboratories and industry will find this book an invaluable guide to the latest technologies in this rapidly developing field.

Introduction to Phase-Structured Electromagnetic Waves
Generation of Bessel, Laguerre-Gaussian, and Mathieu Beams
Quantum Optics of Structured Light
Optical Angular Momentum and Optical Vortices
Singular Optics and Phase Properties
Phase-Structured Light and Nonlinear Optics
Optical Forces between Nanoparticles
Optical Vortices and the Dynamics of Particle Rotation
Rotating Optical Tweezers
Near-Field Trapping
Holographic Optical Trapping
Rheological and Viscometric Measurements
Optically Driven Microfluidics
Liquid Crystal Interactions
Optical Binding and Optical Matter
Ultrasensitive Force Measurement in Physics and Biology
The Control of Bose-Einstein Condensates
Optical Angular Momentum in Quantum Information and Computation

Subject Areas: Laser technology & holography [TTBL], Applied optics [TTB], Communications engineering / telecommunications [TJK], Electrical engineering [THR], Quantum physics [quantum mechanics & quantum field theory PHQ], Atomic & molecular physics [PHM], Optical physics [PHJ], Physics [PH]
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