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

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.

  • Comprehensive and definitive source of the latest research in nanotechnology written by the leading people in the field
  • From theory to applications - all is presented in detail
  • Editor is Chair of the SPIE Nanotechnology Technical Group and is leading the way in generation and manipulation of complex beams
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Structured Light and Its Applications: An Introduction to Phase-Structured Beams and Nanoscale Optical Forces

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.

  • Comprehensive and definitive source of the latest research in nanotechnology written by the leading people in the field
  • From theory to applications - all is presented in detail
  • Editor is Chair of the SPIE Nanotechnology Technical Group and is leading the way in generation and manipulation of complex beams
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Structured Light and Its Applications: An Introduction to Phase-Structured Beams and Nanoscale Optical Forces

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

by David L. Andrews
Structured Light and Its Applications: An Introduction to Phase-Structured Beams and Nanoscale Optical Forces

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

by David L. Andrews

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Overview

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.

  • Comprehensive and definitive source of the latest research in nanotechnology written by the leading people in the field
  • From theory to applications - all is presented in detail
  • Editor is Chair of the SPIE Nanotechnology Technical Group and is leading the way in generation and manipulation of complex beams

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780080559667
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Publication date: 08/29/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 400
File size: 11 MB
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About the Author

David L. Andrews is Professor of Chemistry at the University of East Anglia, UK. His research focuses in the areas of nanophotonics and quantum electrodynamics.

Table of Contents

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

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