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Elements of Photonics

Volume I: In Free Space and Special Media

Iizuka, Keigo

Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics (Series Nr. 1)

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1. Edition June 2002
664 Pages, Hardcover
Handbook/Reference Book

ISBN: 978-0-471-83938-5
John Wiley & Sons

Short Description

Photonics reflects the growing connection between optics and electronics brought about by the increasing role that semiconductor materials and devices play in optical systems. The interplay between fiber optic cables and telephone systems represents the best known use of photonics. Integrated optics refers to optical circuits that combine miniaturized individual optical devices through waveguides or other means into functional optical systems, which are incorporated in a substrate, such as silicon This is volume 1 of a two volume set covering Photonics for fiber and integrated optics. These volumes are each stand alone as valuable information resources but together the set represent the most comprehensive treatment of photonics currently available.

Deals with photonics in free space and special media such as anisotropic crystals.
* Covers all important topics from Fourier optics, such as the properties of lenses, optical image processing, and holography to the Gaussian beam, light propagation in anisotropic media, external field effects, polarization of light and its major applications.
* The book is self-contained and is suitable as a textbook for a two-semester course.
* Provides a particularly good discussion of the electromagnetics of light in bounded media.
* Only book that treats the two complementary topics, fiber and integrated optics.
* Careful and thorough presentation of the topics that makes it well suited for courses and self study.
* Includes numerous figures, problems and worked-out solutions.
* Heavily illustrated with over 400 figures specially formatted to aid in comprehension.

Whisking through Fourier Optics.

Fabry Perot Resonators and Gaussian Beams.

Boundaries.

Optical Guides.

Planar Geometry.

Propagation of Light in Crystals.

Optical Properties of Crystals.

Polarized Light.

How to Construct and Use Poincare Sphere.

Phase Conjugate Optics.

Modes and Dispersion in Optical Fibers.

Detecting Light.

Optical Amplifiers.

Transmitters.

Stationary and Solitary Solutions in a Nonlinear Medium.

Communicating by Fiber Optics.
"...well organized...collects all the necessary information needed to learn wave- and Fourier optics as well as fiber communication without paging through many references or basic publications."
CIE News
December 2003
KEIGO IIZUKA is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.