Non-Diffractive Waves

This continuation and extension of the successful book Localized Waves by the same editors brings together leading researchers in non–diffractive waves to cover the most important results in their field and as such is the first to present the current state. The well–balanced presentation of theory and experiments guides readers through the background of different types of non–diffractive waves, their generation, propagation, and possible applications. The authors include a historical account of the development of the field, and cover different types of non–diffractive waves, including Airy waves and realistic, finite–energy solutions suitable for experimental realization. Apart from basic research, the concepts explained here have promising applications in a wide range of technologies, from wireless communication to acoustics and bio–medical imaging. INDICE: 1. Localized Waves: Historical and Personal Perspectives (Richard W. Ziolkowski) 2. TBA (Franco Gori) 3. Optical Airy beams and bullets (Demetrios Christodoulides) 4. Applications of nondiffracting beams in trapping and microscopy (Kishan Dholakia) 5. X–type waves in ultrafast optics (Peeter Saari) 6. Limited–diffraction beams for high frame rate imaging (Jian–yu Lu) 7. Spatiotemporally localized null electromagnetic waves (Ioannis Besieris, Amr M. Shaarawi) 8. Linearly traveling and accelerating localized wave solutions to the Schrödinger equation (Ioannis Besieris, Amr M. Shaarawi, Richard W. Ziolkowski) 9. Rogue–wave–like statistics in formation of nonlinear X–waves (Gintaras Valiulis, Daniele Faccio, Audrius Dubietis) 10. Conical waves in nonlinear optics: a few examples of successful applications (Daniele Faccio, Stefano Trillo) 11. High order localized waves without orbital angular momentum (Jandir M. Hickmann, University of Alagoas, Brazil) 12. Quantum Optics with X–waves (Claudio Conti) 13. TBA (Pierre Hillion) 14. Quantum nondiffracting pulses: spatio–temporal localization of single photons (Martin Bock, Ruediger Grunwald) 15. Adaptive shaping of localized wavepackets for applications in ultrashort pulse diagnostics (Martin Bock, Susanta Kumar Das, Carsten Fischer, Michael Diehl, P. Boerner, Ruediger Grunwald) 16. Localized waves emanated by pulsed sources: the Riemann–Volterra approach (Andrei Utkin) 17. Propagation–invariant optical beams and pulses (Ari Friberg, Kimmo Saastamoinen, Jari Turunen) 18. Fields of 2D and 3D optical waveguides as waves in free space (Kukhlevsky Szergej) 19. Low–cost Radiation of Real–Time Localized Beams by X Wave–based Driving of Ultrasonic Arrays (A. Ramos) 20. Localized beams and localized pulses: Generation using the angular spectrum (Colin Sheppard) 21. Lossy light bullets (Miguel Angel Porras) 22. Paraxial approximate and Bateman–type exact localized solutions (Aleksei Kiselev) 23. Super–resolving pupils (A. Ranfagni and Daniela Mugnai) 24. Experimental generation of Frozen Waves in Optics: Control of Longitudinal and Transverse Shape of Optical Non–Diffracting Waves (Tárcio A. Vieira, Marcos R. R. Gesualdi, Michel Zamboni–Rached) 25. TBA (C.Dartora, K.Z.Nobrega) 26. Solitons and ultra–short optical waves (Nathan Kutz)

  • ISBN: 978-3-527-41195-5
  • Editorial: Wiley VCH
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 512
  • Fecha Publicación: 23/10/2013
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés