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Basis expansions for nonparaxial fields in 2D (including scattering by circular objects)
Tutorial on basis expansions in optics
M.A. Alonso and N.J. Moore, “Basis expansions for monochromatic field propagation” in Mathematical Optics: Classical, Quantum, and Imaging Methods, (CRC Press, 2013), eds. V. Lakshminarayanan, M.L. Calvo, and T. Alieva, pp. 97-141.Mathematica code
Tutorial on mathematical concepts in optics
Tutorials on Wigner functions in optics
Presentations
Rays, waves, coherence and structured light I , QuIC Talk, IIT Kanpur, April 2022Rays, waves, coherence and structured light II , QuIC Talk, IIT Kanpur, April 2022Rays, waves, coherence and structured light III , QuIC Talk, IIT Kanpur, April 2022The Poincaré sphere, its generalizations, and their several applications in optics (via visio), LOMA Seminar, U. Bordeaux, France (online), Mar. 2021.Demystifying the Publishing Process , webinar organized by the Marseille ElectroMagnetism and Optics Student Chapter, Feb. 2021.The Poincaré sphere, its generalizations, and their several applications in optics. Plenary talk at the SPIE Henri Poincaré Webinar Series on Polarization and Related Phenomena, Sept. 2020.La geometría evidente y escondida en la óptica. Plenary talk at the Congreso Nacional de Física, Villahermosa, Mexico, Oct. 2019.Rays, waves and semiclassics. Carlos Stroud Retirement Celebration, Rochester NY, US, Aug. 2019.Several faces of the geometric phase in optics. Robert Boyd 70th Birthday Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, Oct. 2018.Structured Gaussian beams: ray and wave pictures. Invited talk at Quantum Field Framework for Structured Light Interactions , Banff International Research Station, April 24, 2017.Lectures at the Preparatory School in Optics , Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, February 2017Simple mathematical techniques for describing (and even simpler experimental techniques for measuring) optical fields , COSI Seminar, University of Colorado, Boulder, November 2012.