Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
- Provides creative solutions and set-ups for using Bessel beam illumination in both confocal and light-sheet microscopy
- Includes the first evidence of Super-crystals, ordered structures of polar domains that naturally arise from composite ferroelectrics
- Sheds new light on the phenomenon of quantum entanglement
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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About this book
This book reports new findings in the fields of nonlinear optics, quantum optics and optical microscopy. It presents the first experimental device able to transform an input Gaussian beam into a non-diffracting Bessel-like beam. The modulation mechanism, i.e. electro-optic effect, allows the device to be fast, miniaturizable and integrable into solid state arrays. Also presented is an extensive study of the superposition of Bessel beams and their propagation in turbid media, with the aim of realizing field that is both localized and non-diffracting. These findings have been implemented in a light-sheet microscope to improve the optical sectioning. From a more theoretical point of view this work also tackles the problem of whether and how a single particle is able to entangle two distant systems. The results obtained introduce fundamental limitations on the use of linear optics for quantum technology. Other chapters are dedicated to a number of experiments carried out on disordered ferroelectrics including negative intrinsic mass dynamics, ferroelectric supercrystals, rogue wave dynamics driven by enhanced disorder and first evidence of spatial optical turbulence.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Electro-optic Photonic Circuits
Book Subtitle: From Linear and Nonlinear Waves in Nanodisordered Photorefractive Ferroelectrics
Authors: Giuseppe Di Domenico
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23189-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23188-0Published: 17 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23191-0Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23189-7Published: 03 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 136
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quantum Optics, Quantum Physics, Solid State Physics, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices