Laser beam propagation : generation and propagation of customized light / edited by Andrew Forbes, CSIR National Laser Centre, Pretoria, South Africa.

Other author Forbes, Andrew, editor.
Format Book
PublicationBoca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2014]
Copyright Date©2014
Descriptionxiv, 346 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Optical waves 3 / Filippus S. Roux -- From classical to quantum optics / Thomas Konrad and Sandeep Goyal -- Time domain laser beam propagation / Thomas Feurer -- Spatial laser beam characterization / Christian Schulze and Daniel Flamm -- Characterization of time domain pulses / Thomas Feurer -- Generation of laser beams by digital holograms / Jeffrey Davis and Ignacio Morenov -- Flat-top beams / Andrew Forbes -- Helmholtz-Gauss beams / Julio Gutierrez-Vega -- Vector beams / Qiwen Zhan -- Low-coherence laser beams / Jari Turunen -- The orbital angular momentum of light / Miles Padgett and Reuben Aspden.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index.
LCCN 2013047354
ISBN9781466554399 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN1466554398 (hardback : acid-free paper)