Tutorial Materials and Presentations

Tutorial articles and associated code

Basis expansions for nonparaxial fields in 2D (including scattering by circular objects)

• K. Lombardo and M.A. Alonso, “Two-dimensional directional basis for nonparaxial focused fields and its application to scattering,” Am. J. Phys. 80, 82-93 (2012).
  Mathematica code

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

• M.A. Alonso, “Modern Optics,” The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics, (Princeton University Press, 2015), ed. Nicholas J. Higham, pp. 673-379.

Tutorials on Wigner functions in optics

• M.A. Alonso, “Wigner functions in optics: describing beams as ray bundles and pulses as particle ensembles,” (review article) Adv. Opt. Phot. 3, 272-365 (2011).
• J.C. Petruccelli and M.A. Alonso, “The Wigner function in optics,” The Optics Encyclopedia (Wiley VCH, 2015).

Presentations

• Rays, waves, coherence and structured light I, QuIC Talk, IIT Kanpur, April 2022
• Rays, waves, coherence and structured light II, QuIC Talk, IIT Kanpur, April 2022
• Rays, waves, coherence and structured light III, QuIC Talk, IIT Kanpur, April 2022
• The 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 2017
• Simple mathematical techniques for describing (and even simpler experimental techniques for measuring) optical fields, COSI Seminar, University of Colorado, Boulder, November 2012.