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Structured Light and Its Applications
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Structured Light and Its Applications

by David L. Andrews
April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
10h 57m
English
Academic Press
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Chapter 3 Singular Optics and Phase Properties

Enrique J. Galvez

Colgate University, USA

Hurricanes, tornadoes, and water spouts evoke a special sense of wonder, not only by their majestic size but by the rotational motion that they entail. “The eye of the storm,” the vortex, is particularly mysterious. It represents a place where there is a void; a place that is at the center of something unique; a channel that takes you to an unknown place.

Smaller vortices pose no lack of awe. The swirls in fluids or the turbulent wakes off airplane wing-tips are examples of a ubiquitous phenomenon. Physicists and scientists alike are no less impressed by such rotational displays; magnetic vortices, DNA, and other natural twirls are topics of constant study. ...

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ISBN: 9780123740274