Random Light Beams: Theory and Applications

ISBN-13: 9780367379391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 366 str.

Olga Korotkova

Opis

This book provides an overview of recent discoveries in random beams and outlines possible uses of these beams in imaging, tomography, and smart illumination. The book presents the research that has changed the field from purely theoretical trends to applications that allow communications and remote sensing of random media for optical communications with LiDAR systems. It covers modification of polarization properties beams, along with two of the most important applications of random beams: communications and LiDAR systems. MATLAB® simulation codes are included.

Spis treści

Introduction. Scalar random beams: theory. Electromagnetic random beams: theory. Simulations. Applications.

O autorze

Dr. Olga Korotkova received her Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, in December 2003. In her Ph.D. thesis and in other publications she showed the advantages of using random optical beams for communications and sensing through random media. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. She has recently introduced several schemes of correlation and polarization diversity for mitigation of effects of turbulence and scatterers. Korotkova has published more than 100 scientific papers in peer-referred journals, which have been cited more than 1800 times. She chaired six SPIE conferences relating to atmospheric and oceanic propagation of EM waves in 2007-2012 and has been a member of the editorial board for Optics Letters since 2010.