TY - BOOK AU - Forbes,Andrew TI - Laser beam propagation: generation and propagation of customized light SN - 9781466554399 PY - 2014/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group KW - Laser beams KW - Beam optics N1 - Includes bibliographical references : pages 323-338 and index; 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 ER -