Publication date:
06 May 2021Length of book:
164 pagesPublisher
Institute Of Physics PublishingDimensions:
254x178mm7x10"
ISBN-13: 9780750334693
Topology in Optics: Tying light in knots (Second Edition) provides the background needed to understand a broad range of unexpected phenomenon and developments arising from topological effects in optics. Assuming only a background in physics at the advanced undergraduate level, it requires no prior familiarity with topology. Revised and expanded with two new chapters, Topological Photonics and Optical Knots and Links, this will be an invaluable reference for undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers and engineers in optics and related areas.
Key Features
- The first book to cover in detail the use of topology in optical physics.
- Self-contained, covering the necessary background in topology.
- At a level understandable to an advanced undergraduate, but covering a range of cutting edge research topics.
- Of interest to students and researchers in many areas of physics, optics, engineering, and mathematics.
In this book (its second edition), the focus is on topology in classical and quantum optics. Within this context, the author succeeds in presenting the necessary mathematical background needed to understand these developments, with practical examples that will be useful to those working on diverse phenomena such as Pancharatnam–Berry phases, optical vortices and solitons, and optical simulations of solid-state topological phenomena.
The target audience for this text is advanced undergraduates in mathematics, physics, and related areas, but anyone concerned with structured light will profit from reading the book.
Christian Brosseau, OSA Fellow and professor of physics, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France