Structured Light for Optical Communication

Mohammad D. Al-Amri · Mohamed Babiker · David Andrews

juni 2021 · Elsevier

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Structured Light for Optical Communication highlights principles and applications in the rapidly evolving field of structured light in wide-ranging contexts, from classical forms of communication to new frontiers of quantum communication. Besides the basic principles and applications, the book covers the background of structured light in its most common forms, as well as state-of-the-art developments. Structured light has been hailed as affording outstanding prospects for the realization of high bandwidth communication, enhanced tools for more highly secure cryptography, and exciting opportunities for providing a reliable platform for quantum computing.This book is a valuable resource for graduate students and other active researchers, as well as others who may be interested in learning about this cutting-edge research field. - Broadly covers the use of structured light in communication applications - Highlights quantum and photonics principles, emerging and future applications - Assesses the major challenges of using structured light for communication applications

Om författaren

Mohammad Al-Amri is Professor of Physics at the Center for Quantum Optics and Quantum Informatics, KACST, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His research focuses in the areas of quantum optics and quantum informatics.

Mohamed Babiker is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of York, UK. His research focuses on quantum optics theory, optical and matter vortices, and quantum field theory.

David Andrews is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Physics at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. His research covers a wide range of topics in spectroscopy, optics, photonics, and quantum science, and he has produced over four hundred scientific papers, more than fifty of them on chiral optics alone. As author and editor, he has published more than twenty books, including Lasers in Chemistry, Resonance Energy Transfer, Structured Light and its Applications, Optical Nanomanipulation, and an Introduction to Photon Science and Technology. He served as President of SPIE in 2021.