Books by Victor V. Kotlyar

The reader will learn in which ways light can be "confined" within a subwavelength region of size smaller than half a wavelength. The reader will also learn techniques using which inhomogeneously (i.e. azimuthally and radially) polarized optical beams can be focused.

The book explores how optical vortices have been used in many practical applications including conventional and quantum wireless communications, micromanipulation, optical measurements with super-resolution, spiral interferometry, microscopy, and atom cooling.