Laser beam propagation :  generation and propagation of customized light / 
spine title :  Laser beam propagation. 
edited by Andrew Forbes, CSIR National Laser Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. 
 - xiv, 346 pages :  illustrations (some colour) ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references : pages 323-338 and index. 
<br/><br/>Optical waves 3 / Filippus S. Roux -- From classical to quantum optics / Thomas Konrad and Sandeep Goyal -- Time domain laser beam propagation / Thomas Feurer -- Spatial laser beam characterization / Christian Schulze and Daniel Flamm -- Characterization of time domain pulses / Thomas Feurer -- Generation of laser beams by digital holograms / Jeffrey Davis and Ignacio Morenov -- Flat-top beams / Andrew Forbes -- Helmholtz-Gauss beams / Julio Gutierrez-Vega -- Vector beams / Qiwen Zhan -- Low-coherence laser beams / Jari Turunen -- The orbital angular momentum of light / Miles Padgett and Reuben Aspden. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781466554399  RM506.17 1466554398 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Laser beams.<br/>Beam optics.