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Theory of Electromagnetic Beams

by John Lekner
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783031009549
  • Binding: Paperback
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  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
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  • Pages: 165
  • Original Price: EUR 54.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 353 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Materials Science / Electronic Materials, Physics / Optics & Light, and Industrial Design / Product

The theory of electromagnetic beams is presented in a simple and physical way, with all necessary mathematics explained in the text. The topics covered are in free-space classical electrodynamics, but contact is made with quantum theory in proofs that causal beams of various kinds can be viewed as superpositions of photons. This follows from explicit expressions for the energy, momentum and angular momentum per unit length for each type of beam. The properties of beams in the focal region, of special experimental and theoretical interest, are discussed in detail.

There are eight chapters: on Fundamentals, Beam-like solutions of the Helmholtz equation, Electromagnetic beams, Polarization, Chirality, Comparison of electromagnetic beams, a chapter on Sound beams and particle beams (to show the similarities to and differences from the vector electromagnetic beams), and a final chapter on Measures of focal extent. Ten Appendices cover mathematical or associated physical topics.

John Lekner is Emeritus Professor of theoretical physics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. After an M.Sc. at the University of Auckland and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, he taught at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, where he was also Fellow and Tutor in Physics at Emmanuel College. He has worked in statistical physics, electromagnetism, quantum theory and theory of fluids. He is the author of 157 papers and of the books Theory of Reflection, 2nd Edition (Springer, 2016) and Theory of Electromagnetic Pulses (IOP Concise Physics, 2018).

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