Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second English edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Introduction
- 1 Abbe's sine condition
- 2 Fourier optics
- 3 Effect of polarization on diffraction in systems of high numerical aperture
- 4 Gaussian beam optics
- 5 Coherent and incoherent imaging
- 6 First-order temporal coherence in classical optics
- 7 The van Cittert–Zernike theorem
- 8 Partial polarization, Stokes parameters, and the Poincaré sphere
- 9 Second-order coherence and the Hanbury Brown–Twiss experiment
- 10 What in the world are surface plasmons?
- 11 Surface plasmon polaritons on metallic surfaces
- 12 The Faraday effect
- 13 The magneto-optical Kerr effect
- 14 The Sagnac interferometer
- 15 Fabry–Pérot etalons in polarized light
- 16 The Ewald–Oseen extinction theorem
- 17 Reciprocity in classical linear optics
- 18 Optical pulse compression
- 19 The uncertainty principle in classical optics
- 20 Omni-directional dielectric mirrors
- 21 Linear optical vortices
- 22 Geometric-optical rays, Poynting's vector, and the field momenta
- 23 Doppler shift, stellar aberration, and convection of light by moving media
- 24 Diffraction gratings
- 25 Diffractive optical elements
- 26 The Talbot effect
- 27 Some quirks of total internal reflection
- 28 Evanescent coupling
- 29 Internal and external conical refraction
- 30 Transmission of light through small elliptical apertures
- 31 The method of Fox and Li
- 32 The beam propagation method
- 33 Launching light into a fiber
- 34 The optics of semiconductor diode lasers
- 35 Michelson's stellar interferometer
- 36 Bracewell's interferometric telescope
- 37 Scanning optical microscopy
- 38 Zernike's method of phase contrast
- 39 Polarization microscopy
- 40 Nomarski's differential interference contrast microscope
- 41 The van Leeuwenhoek microscope
- 42 Projection photolithography
- 43 Interaction of light with subwavelength structures
- 44 The Ronchi test
- 45 The Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor
- 46 Ellipsometry
- 47 Holography and holographic interferometry
- 48 Self-focusing in nonlinear optical media
- 49 Spatial optical solitons
- 50 Laser heating of multilayer stacks
- Index
- References
21 - Linear optical vortices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the second English edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Introduction
- 1 Abbe's sine condition
- 2 Fourier optics
- 3 Effect of polarization on diffraction in systems of high numerical aperture
- 4 Gaussian beam optics
- 5 Coherent and incoherent imaging
- 6 First-order temporal coherence in classical optics
- 7 The van Cittert–Zernike theorem
- 8 Partial polarization, Stokes parameters, and the Poincaré sphere
- 9 Second-order coherence and the Hanbury Brown–Twiss experiment
- 10 What in the world are surface plasmons?
- 11 Surface plasmon polaritons on metallic surfaces
- 12 The Faraday effect
- 13 The magneto-optical Kerr effect
- 14 The Sagnac interferometer
- 15 Fabry–Pérot etalons in polarized light
- 16 The Ewald–Oseen extinction theorem
- 17 Reciprocity in classical linear optics
- 18 Optical pulse compression
- 19 The uncertainty principle in classical optics
- 20 Omni-directional dielectric mirrors
- 21 Linear optical vortices
- 22 Geometric-optical rays, Poynting's vector, and the field momenta
- 23 Doppler shift, stellar aberration, and convection of light by moving media
- 24 Diffraction gratings
- 25 Diffractive optical elements
- 26 The Talbot effect
- 27 Some quirks of total internal reflection
- 28 Evanescent coupling
- 29 Internal and external conical refraction
- 30 Transmission of light through small elliptical apertures
- 31 The method of Fox and Li
- 32 The beam propagation method
- 33 Launching light into a fiber
- 34 The optics of semiconductor diode lasers
- 35 Michelson's stellar interferometer
- 36 Bracewell's interferometric telescope
- 37 Scanning optical microscopy
- 38 Zernike's method of phase contrast
- 39 Polarization microscopy
- 40 Nomarski's differential interference contrast microscope
- 41 The van Leeuwenhoek microscope
- 42 Projection photolithography
- 43 Interaction of light with subwavelength structures
- 44 The Ronchi test
- 45 The Shack–Hartmann wavefront sensor
- 46 Ellipsometry
- 47 Holography and holographic interferometry
- 48 Self-focusing in nonlinear optical media
- 49 Spatial optical solitons
- 50 Laser heating of multilayer stacks
- Index
- References
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- Classical Optics and its Applications , pp. 289 - 300Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009