Caustic Light in Nonlinear Photonic Media

Alessandro Zannotti (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIII, 180 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-53087-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Introduction and Motivation.- Realization and Exploration of Structured Light and Photonic Structures.- Elementary Optical Catastrophes and Caustic-Based Photonic Structures.- Propagation-Invariant Caustics.- Caustic Networks and Rogue Waves.- Conclusion and Outlook.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	Springer Theses
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 180 p. 70 illus., 59 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	465 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
Schlagworte	Airy Beam • artificial caustics • Bessel Beam • Caustics in nature • Explanation of Rogue Waves • Non-Diffracting Beam • Nonlinear Optics • Optical Network • Photonic Lattice • Soliton dynamics • Structured Light
ISBN-10	3-030-53087-6 / 3030530876
ISBN-13	978-3-030-53087-7 / 9783030530877
Zustand	Neuware