Optical Beam Characterization via Phase-Space Tomography

• Main Author: Cámara, Alejandro (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Spectroscopy.; Microscopy.; Optics and Electrodynamics.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Spectroscopy and Microscopy.

This thesis focuses on the fundamental problem of characterising partially coherent beams. The book describes several non-interferometric methods based on phase-space tomography for recovering the spatial coherence information of optical beams.   In the context of optical beams, partially coherent l...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Phase-space Optics
• Radon-Wigner Display
• Separable Beams
• Rotationally Symmetric Beams
• General Beams
• Conclusions.