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"This engagingly written text provides a useful pedagogical introduction to an extensive class of geometrical phenomena in the optics of polarization and phase, including simple explanations of much of the underlying mathematics." --Michael Berry, University of Bristol, UK
"The author covers a vast number of topics in great detail, with a unifying mathematical treatment. It will be a useful reference for both beginners and experts...." --Enrique Galvez, Charles A. Dana Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Colgate University
"a firm and comprehensive grounding both for those looking to acquaint themselves with the field and those of us that need reminding of the things we thought we knew, but hitherto did not understand: an essential point of reference." --Miles Padgett, Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy and Vice Principal (Research), University of Glasgow
This book focuses on the various forms of wavefield singularities, including optical vortices and polarization singularities, as well as orbital angular momentum and associated applications. It highlights how an understanding of singular optics provides a completely different way to look at light. Whereas traditional optics focuses on the shape and structure of the non-zero portions of the wavefield, singular optics describes a wave's properties from its null regions. The contents cover the three main areas of the field: the study of generic features of wavefields, determination of unusual properties of vortices and wavefields that contain singularities, and practical applications of vortices and other singularities.
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「這本引人入勝的書籍提供了一個有用的教學介紹，涵蓋了偏振和相位光學中廣泛的幾何現象類別，包括對許多基礎數學的簡單解釋。」--邁克爾·貝瑞，英國布里斯托大學
「作者詳細涵蓋了大量主題，並提供統一的數學處理。這將成為初學者和專家的有用參考……」--恩里克·加爾維斯，科爾蓋特大學物理與天文學查爾斯·A·達納教授
「這本書為那些希望熟悉該領域的人以及我們這些需要提醒自己曾經認為了解但實際上並不理解的事物的人提供了堅實而全面的基礎：一個必不可少的參考點。」--邁爾斯·帕吉特，格拉斯哥大學自然哲學凱爾文講座教授及副校長（研究）
本書專注於波場奇異性的各種形式，包括光學漩渦和偏振奇異性，以及軌道角動量和相關應用。它強調了理解奇異光學如何提供一種完全不同的看待光的方式。傳統光學專注於波場非零部分的形狀和結構，而奇異光學則從波的零區域描述其性質。內容涵蓋該領域的三個主要領域：波場的一般特徵研究、確定包含奇異性的漩渦和波場的異常性質，以及漩渦和其他奇異性的實際應用。
作者簡介
Gregory J. Gbur received a B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago in 1993 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1996 and 2001. Since 2005, he has been a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, becoming an Associate Professor in 2010. His research is in classical theoretical optics, focusing on singular optics, coherence theory, plasmonics and invisibility/cloaking. He has written or coauthored over 80 journal papers to date, including three reviews for Progress in Optics. He has written another textbook, Mathematical Methods for Optical Physics and Engineering. He has an active interest in science communication, writing the personal science blog Skulls in the Stars since 2007, and has written popular articles for a number of magazines, including La Recherche, American Scientist, and Optics and Photonics News.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Gregory J. Gbur 於1993年獲得芝加哥大學的榮譽學士學位，並於1996年和2001年分別獲得羅徹斯特大學的碩士和博士學位。自2005年以來，他一直是北卡羅來納州夏洛特大學的教職員，並於2010年晉升為副教授。他的研究領域為經典理論光學，專注於奇異光學、相干理論、等離子體學以及隱形/隱蔽技術。他至今已撰寫或共同撰寫超過80篇期刊論文，包括三篇《Progress in Optics》的綜述文章。他還撰寫了另一本教科書，Mathematical Methods for Optical Physics and Engineering。他對科學傳播有著濃厚的興趣，自2007年以來撰寫個人科學部落格《Skulls in the Stars》，並為多本雜誌撰寫流行文章，包括La Recherche、American Scientist和Optics and Photonics News。
