Asian
Journal of Physics

A Special Issue in Honour
of
Prof Anna Consortini

Guest Edited By : Giancarlo C Righini

Anita Publications
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Asian Journal of Physics
(A Publication Not for Profit)
Volume 33, Nos 3 & 4 (2024)

The International Commission for Optics (ICO) under the leadership of Prof Anna Consortini: a fruitful period for the optics and photonics world community
Maria L Calvo, Pierre Chavel and Maria J Yzuel 127

Active learning in optics: Educational outreach activities in Pakistan
Imrana Ashraf 139

Fundamental imaging limits of smartphone cameras
J C Dainty 161

Scanning near-field optical microscopy
N Granchi, F Intonti and M Gurioli 169

Partially coherent nonplanar sources
J C G deSande, R Martínez-Herrero, G Piquero, O Korotkova, M Santarsiero and F Gori 185

Geometric phase in dual-beam interference
Ari T Friberg 197

Phase space tomography for measuring partially coherent fields of light sources
Rui Qi and Miguel A Alonso 205

Atmospheric turbulence and its optical manifestations
Victor Nosov, Vladimir Lukin, Eugene Nosov and Andrei Torgaev 219

On the optothermal properties of vanadium dioxide from the visible to the infrared
R Li Voti, M Bertolotti, G Leahu, E Petronijevic, G M Cesarini, M C Larciprete, M Centini, A Belardini, F Bovino, and C Sibilia 239

Cavity opto-mechanics in whispering gallery mode resonators: Route to chaos
Gabriele Frigenti, Daniele Farnesi, Stefano Pelli, Gualtiero Nunzi Conti, and Silvia Soria 253

A secure image encryption method using toroidal vortex phase masks, QR decomposition, and gyrator transform
Hukum Singh and Kehar Singh 269

Medical diagnostics using gas in scattering media absorption spectroscopy GASMAS
Katarina Svanberg and Sune Svanberg 287