Caustic light in nonlinear photonic media. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alessandro Zannotti.
• Other Names: Zannotti, Alessandro
• Contents: Intro -- Supervisor's Foreword -- Peer-Reviewed PublicationsA. Zannotti, F. Diebel, M. Boguslawski, C. Denz, Optical catastrophes of the swallowtail and butterfly beams, New J. Phys., 19, 053004 (2017).A. Zannotti, M. Rüschenbaum, C. Denz, Pearcey solitons in curved nonlinear photonic caustic lattices, J. Opt., 19, 094001 (2017).A. Zannotti, F. Diebel, C. Denz, Dynamics of the optical swallowtail catastrophe, Optica, 4, 1157 (2017).A. Zannotti, J. M. Vasiljević, D. V. Timotijević, D. M. Jović Savić, C. Denz, Visualizing the ener -- Publications Independent of this Thesis Conference Proceedings -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and Motivation -- References -- 2 Waves, Caustics, and Catastrophes -- 2.1 Waves in Structured Nonlinear Photonic Media -- 2.2 Caustics are Catastrophes in Light -- 2.2.1 Caustics as Singularities of Gradient Maps -- 2.2.2 Diffraction Catastrophe Integrals -- 2.2.3 The Topologies of Catastrophes -- References -- 3 Realization and Exploration of Structured Light and Photonic Structures -- 3.1 Spatially Structured Light -- 3.1.1 Creating Scalar Structured Light Fields with Phase-Only Spatial Light Modulators 3.1.2 Digital Holographic Phase Metrology -- 3.2 Photorefractive Nonlinearity in SBN -- 3.2.1 Linear Electro-optic Effect -- 3.2.2 Band Transport Model and Anisotropic Approximation -- 3.3 Refractive Index Modulations in Photorefractive SBN Crystals -- 3.3.1 Optical Induction of Refractive Index Modulations -- 3.3.2 Analysis of Optically Induced Photonic Structures -- References -- 4 Elementary Optical Catastrophes and Caustic-Based Photonic Structures -- 4.1 Evaluation of the Oscillatory Integrals of Diffraction Catastrophes -- 4.2 Optical Catastrophes in Light -- 4.2.1 Airy and Pearcey Beams 4.2.2 Optical Swallowtail and Butterfly Catastrophes -- 4.2.3 Hyperbolic and Elliptic Umbilic Beams -- 4.3 Caustic Light-Based Fabrication of Photonic Structures -- 4.3.1 Waveguiding in Caustic Photonic Lattices -- 4.3.2 Formation of a Pearcey Soliton -- 4.3.3 Elliptic-Umbilic-Based Morphing Lattices -- References -- 5 Propagation-Invariant Caustics -- 5.1 Caustics in Propagation-Invariant Light -- 5.1.1 The Bessel Beam Caustic -- 5.2 Visualising the Energy Flow of Tailored Light -- 5.3 Shaping Caustics into Propagation-Invariant Light -- 5.3.1 Inverse Caustic Design I: Differential Equation 5.3.2 The Bessel-Lattice Beam -- 5.3.3 Self-healing and Momentum Transfer in Tailored Caustics -- 5.3.4 Inverse Caustic Design II: Bessel Pencil -- References -- 6 Caustic Networks and Rogue Waves -- 6.1 Formation of Caustic Networks -- 6.1.1 Caustic Networks from Gaussian Random Fields -- 6.1.2 Analysing the Evolution of Caustic Networks -- 6.2 Enhanced Random Focusing in Nonlinear Anisotropic Media -- 6.2.1 Focusing by Modulation Instabilities -- 6.2.2 Enhanced Focusing of Caustic Networks -- 6.3 Random Scattering of Caustic Networks -- 6.3.1 Extreme Events by Scattering at Random Potentials
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (180 pages)
• Subjects: 621.36/5; Caustics (Optics); Photonics; Caustics (Optics); Photonics; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030530884
• Related ISBNs: 9783030530877
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