edited by Andrew Forbes, CSIR National Laser Centre, Pretoria, South Africa
xiv, 346 pages :
illustrations (some color) ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index
Optical waves 3 / Filippus S. Roux -- From classical to quantum optics / Thomas Konrad and Sandeep Goyal -- Time domain laser beam propagation / Thomas Feurer -- Spatial laser beam characterization / Christian Schulze and Daniel Flamm -- Characterization of time domain pulses / Thomas Feurer -- Generation of laser beams by digital holograms / Jeffrey Davis and Ignacio Morenov -- Flat-top beams / Andrew Forbes -- Helmholtz-Gauss beams / Julio Gutierrez-Vega -- Vector beams / Qiwen Zhan -- Low-coherence laser beams / Jari Turunen -- The orbital angular momentum of light / Miles Padgett and Reuben Aspden