Essentials of photonics. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alan Rogers.
• Other Names: Rogers, A. J
• Contents: Photons and Electrons; Historical Sketch; The Wave Nature of Light; Polarization; The Electromagnetic Spectrum; Emission and Absorption Processes; Photon Statistics; The Behaviour of Electrons; Lasers; Summary; Wave Properties of Light ; The Electromagnetic Spectrum; Wave Representation; Electromagnetic Waves; Reflection and Refraction; Total Internal Reflection; Interference of Light; Light Waveguiding; Interferometers; Diffraction; Gaussian Beams and Stable Optical Resonators; Polarization Optics ; The Polarization Ellipse; Crystal Optics; Retarding Waveplates; A Variable Waveplate: The Soleil-Babinet Compensator; Polarizing Prisms; Linear Birefringence; Circular Birefringence; Elliptical Birefringence; Practical Polarization Effects; Polarization Analysis; The Form of the Jones Matrices; Light and Matter Emission, Propagation, and Absorption Processes ; Classical Theory of Light Propagation in Uniform Dielectric Media; Optical Dispersion; Emission and Absorption of Light; Optical Coherence and Correlation ; Introduction; Measure of Coherence; Wiener-Khinchin Theorem; Dual-Beam Interference; Practical Examples; Some Essential Physics of Radiation and Solids ; Radiation; Electrons in Solids; Optical Sources, Modulators, and Detectors ; Optical Sources; Optical Modulators; Photodetectors; Optical Waveguides ; The Planar Waveguide; Integrated Optics; Cylindrical Waveguides; Optical Fibres; Optical Fibres for Communications; Polarization-Holding Waveguides; Photonic Crystal Fibres; Nonlinear Optics ; Nonlinear Optics and Optical Fibres; The Formalism of Nonlinear Optics; Second-Harmonic Generation and Phase Matching; Optical Mixing; Intensity-Dependent Refractive Index; Four-Photon Mixing (FPM); Parametric and Inelastic Processes; Solitons; Photosensitivity; Non-Linear Effects in Photonic Crystal Fibres (PCF); Photonics in Action ; Antireflective Coatings; Optical-Fibre Current Measurement; The Integrated Optical Spectrum Analyser; The Audio Compact Disc (CD); The Optical-Fibre Gyroscope; Holography; Optical-Time-Domain Reflectometry (OTDR) and Its Use in Distributed Optical-Fibre Raman Temperature Sensing (DTS); Measurement of Very Short Optical Pulses: The Autocorrelator; Topics in Optical-Fibre Communications; Regimes-Correlation Length; Epilogue And What of the Future? ; Appendices ; Appendix I: Maxwell’s Equations; Appendix II: The Fourier Inversion Theorem; Appendix III: Symmetry of the Permittivity Tensor; Appendix IV: The Polarization Ellipse; Appendix V: Radiation from an Oscillating Dipole; Appendix VI: The d-Function; Appendix VII: The Fermi-Dirac Function; Appendix VIII: Second Harmonic Generation; Appendix IX: The Sampling Theorem; Appendix X: The Semiconductor Equation; Appendix XI: The Formal Analysis of Polarization-Mode Dispersion (PMD); References Each chapter includes an introduction, conclusion, problems, references, and suggestions for further reading ; ;
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 621.381045; Photonics; Optoelectronics; Optoelectronic devices
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420005530; 1420005537
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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