Structured Light and Its Applications

Structured Light and Its Applications

by David L. Andrews
Released April 2008
Publisher(s): Academic Press
ISBN: 9780080559667

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Book description

New possibilities have recently emerged for producing optical beams with complex and intricate structures, and for the non-contact optical manipulation of matter. This book 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

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Author Affiliations
  6. Preface
  7. Chapter 1: Introduction to Phase-Structured Electromagnetic Waves
    1. 1.1 INTRODUCTION
    2. 1.2 LAGUERRE–GAUSSIAN BEAMS AND ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM
    3. 1.3 BESSEL AND MATHIEU BEAMS
    4. 1.4 GENERAL SOLUTION OF THE WAVE EQUATION
    5. 1.5 CLASSICAL OR QUANTUM?
    6. 1.6 CREATING LAGUERRE–GAUSSIAN BEAMS WITH LENSES AND HOLOGRAMS
    7. 1.7 COHERENCE: SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL
    8. 1.8 TRANSFORMATIONS BETWEEN BASIS SETS
    9. 1.9 CONCLUSION
  8. Chapter 2: Angular Momentum and Vortices in Optics
    1. 2.1 INTRODUCTION
    2. 2.2 CLASSICAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF FIELDS AND PARTICLES
    3. 2.3 SEPARATION OF RADIATIVE ANGULAR MOMENTUM IN L AND S
    4. 2.4 MULTIPOLE FIELDS AND THEIR VORTEX STRUCTURE
    5. 2.5 ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF MONOCHROMATIC PARAXIAL BEAMS
    6. 2.6 QUANTUM DESCRIPTION OF PARAXIAL BEAMS
    7. 2.7 NONMONOCHROMATIC PARAXIAL BEAM
    8. 2.8 OPERATOR DESCRIPTION OF CLASSICAL PARAXIAL BEAMS
    9. 2.9 DYNAMICS OF OPTICAL VORTICES
    10. 2.10 CONCLUSION
  9. Chapter 3: Singular Optics and Phase Properties
    1. 3.1 FUNDAMENTAL PHASE SINGULARITIES
    2. 3.2 BEAMS WITH COMPOSITE VORTICES
    3. 3.3 NONINTEGER VORTEX BEAMS
    4. 3.4 PROPAGATION DYNAMICS
    5. 3.5 CONCLUSIONS
    6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  10. Chapter 4: Nanoscale Optics: Interparticle Forces
    1. 4.1 INTRODUCTION
    2. 4.2 QED DESCRIPTION OF OPTICALLY INDUCED PAIR FORCES
    3. 4.3 OVERVIEW OF APPLICATIONS
    4. 4.4 DISCUSSION
    5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  11. Chapter 5: Near-Field Optical Micromanipulation
    1. 5.1 INTRODUCTION
    2. 5.2 THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR NEAR-FIELD TRAPPING
    3. 5.3 EXPERIMENTAL GUIDING AND TRAPPING OF PARTICLES IN THE NEAR FIELD
    4. 5.4 EMERGENT THEMES IN THE NEAR FIELD
    5. 5.5 CONCLUSIONS
    6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  12. Chapter 6: Holographic Optical Tweezers
    1. 6.1 BACKGROUND
    2. 6.2 EXAMPLE RATIONALE FOR CONSTRUCTING EXTENDED ARRAYS OF TRAPS
    3. 6.3 EXPERIMENTAL DETAILS
    4. 6.4 ALGORITHMS FOR HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL TRAPS
    5. 6.5 THE FUTURE OF HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL TWEEZERS
    6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  13. Chapter 7: Atomic and Molecular Manipulation Using Structured Light
    1. 7.1 INTRODUCTION
    2. 7.2 A BRIEF OVERVIEW
    3. 7.3 TRANSFER OF OAM TO ATOMS AND MOLECULES
    4. 7.4 DOPPLER FORCES AND TORQUES
    5. 7.5 THE DOPPLER SHIFT
    6. 7.6 ROTATIONAL EFFECTS ON LIQUID CRYSTALS
    7. 7.7 COMMENTS AND CONCLUSIONS
    8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  14. Chapter 8: Optical Vortex Trapping and the Dynamics of Particle Rotation
    1. 8.1 INTRODUCTION
    2. 8.2 COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING OF OPTICAL TRAPPING
    3. 8.3 ELECTROMAGNETIC ANGULAR MOMENTUM
    4. 8.4 ELECTROMAGNETIC ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF PARAXIAL AND NONPARAXIAL OPTICAL VORTICES
    5. 8.5 NONPARAXIAL OPTICAL VORTICES
    6. 8.6 TRAPPING IN VORTEX BEAMS
    7. 8.7 SYMMETRY AND OPTICAL TORQUE
    8. 8.8 ZERO ANGULAR MOMENTUM OPTICAL VORTICES
    9. 8.9 GAUSSIAN “LONGITUDINAL” OPTICAL VORTEX
    10. 8.10 CONCLUSION
  15. Chapter 9: Rotation of Particles in Optical Tweezers
    1. 9.1 INTRODUCTION
    2. 9.2 USING INTENSITY SHAPED BEAMS TO ORIENT AND ROTATE TRAPPED OBJECTS
    3. 9.3 ANGULAR MOMENTUM TRANSFER TO PARTICLES HELD IN OPTICAL TWEEZERS
    4. 9.4 OUT OF PLANE ROTATION IN OPTICAL TWEEZERS
    5. 9.5 ROTATION OF HELICALLY SHAPED PARTICLES IN OPTICAL TWEEZERS
    6. 9.6 9.6 APPLICATIONS OF ROTATIONAL CONTROL IN OPTICAL TWEEZERS
  16. Chapter 10: Rheological and Viscometric Methods
    1. 10.1 INTRODUCTION
    2. 10.2 OPTICAL TORQUE MEASUREMENT
    3. 10.3 A ROTATING OPTICAL TWEEZERS-BASED MICROVISCOMETER
    4. 10.4 APPLICATIONS
    5. 10.5 CONCLUSION
  17. Chapter 11: Orbital Angular Momentum in Quantum Communication and Information
    1. 11.1 SENDING AND RECEIVING QUANTUM INFORMATION
    2. 11.2 EXPLORING THE OAM STATE SPACE
    3. 11.3 QUANTUM PROTOCOLS
    4. 11.4 CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK
    5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  18. Chapter 12: Optical Manipulation of Ultracold Atoms
    1. 12.1 BACKGROUND
    2. 12.2 OPTICAL FORCES AND ATOM TRAPS
    3. 12.3 THE QUANTUM GAS: BOSE–EINSTEIN CONDENSATES
    4. 12.4 LIGHT-INDUCED GAUGE POTENTIALS FOR COLD ATOMS
    5. 12.5 LIGHT-INDUCED GAUGE POTENTIALS FOR THE Λ SCHEME
    6. 12.6 LIGHT-INDUCED GAUGE FIELDS FOR A TRIPOD SCHEME
    7. 12.7 ULTRA-RELATIVISTIC BEHAVIOR OF COLD ATOMS IN LIGHT-INDUCED GAUGE POTENTIALS
    8. 12.8 FINAL REMARKS
  19. Index
  20. Colour Plate Section

Product information

  • Title: Structured Light and Its Applications
  • Author(s): David L. Andrews
  • Release date: April 2008
  • Publisher(s): Academic Press
  • ISBN: 9780080559667