Caustic Light in Nonlinear Photonic Media - Couverture rigide

Zannotti, Alessandro

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3030530876 ISBN 13 : 9783030530877

Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2020

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030530876
• ISBN 13: 9783030530877
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 193
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