TY - JOUR
T1 - Singular Optics
T2 - More ado about nothing
AU - Dennis, Mark R.
AU - Kivshar, Yuri S.
AU - Soskin, Marat S.
AU - Swartzlander, Grover A.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The August 2009 special issue of Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied optics presents some of the papers delivered at the 4th International Conference in Singular Optics, which took place on 15-20 September 2008 in Alushta, Ukraine. A way of grouping the main topics covered by this special issue includes optical vortices and circulations, singular polarization optics, singularities in modern optics, singularities in classical optics, and applications of singular optics. There were several important developments in what is recognized as Singular Optics, particularly phase singularities and optical vortices, in the 1940s and 1950s. Spatial shifts such as the Goos Hänchen shift are also described in the special issue. Wolter's methodology, in using the interference minima to get a precise physical picture and improved experimental accuracy, are also discussed in Singular Optics.
AB - The August 2009 special issue of Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied optics presents some of the papers delivered at the 4th International Conference in Singular Optics, which took place on 15-20 September 2008 in Alushta, Ukraine. A way of grouping the main topics covered by this special issue includes optical vortices and circulations, singular polarization optics, singularities in modern optics, singularities in classical optics, and applications of singular optics. There were several important developments in what is recognized as Singular Optics, particularly phase singularities and optical vortices, in the 1940s and 1950s. Spatial shifts such as the Goos Hänchen shift are also described in the special issue. Wolter's methodology, in using the interference minima to get a precise physical picture and improved experimental accuracy, are also discussed in Singular Optics.
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U2 - 10.1088/1464-4258/11/9/090201
DO - 10.1088/1464-4258/11/9/090201
M3 - Review article
SN - 1464-4258
VL - 11
JO - Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics
JF - Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics
IS - 9
M1 - 090201
ER -