Fundamentals of Photonics
Now in a new full-color edition, Fundamentals of Photonics, Second Edition is a self-contained and up-to-date introductory-level textbook that thoroughly surveys this rapidly expanding area of engineering and applied physics. Featuring a logical blend of theory and applications, coverage includes detailed accounts of the primary theories of light, including ray optics, wave optics, electromagnetic optics, and photon optics, as well as the interaction of photons and atoms, and semiconductor optics. Presented at increasing levels of complexity, preliminary sections build toward more advanced topics,
such as Fourier optics and holography, guided-wave and fiber optics, semiconductor sources and detectors, electro-optic and acousto-optic devices, nonlinear optical devices, optical interconnects and switches, and optical fiber communications.
Each of the twenty-two chapters of the first edition has been thoroughly updated. The Second Edition also features entirely new chapters on photonic-crystal optics (including multilayer and periodic media, waveguides, holey fibers, and resonators) and ultrafast optics (including femtosecond optical pulses, ultrafast nonlinear optics, and optical solitons). The chapters on optical interconnects and switches and optical fiber communications have been completely rewritten to accommodate current technology.
Each chapter contains summaries, highlighted equations, exercises, problems, and selected reading lists. Examples of real systems are included to emphasize the concepts governing applications of current interest.
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The refractive indexes na and n^, and the directions of polarization of these
modes, may be determined by use of a procedure based on the index ellipsoid:
Index-E Figure 6. -Ellipsoid Construction for Determining Normal Modes lanza- .3
A similar procedure can be followed to determine the spectral width of higher-
order bandgaps. The width of the mth bandgap is determined by a formula
identical to (7.2- 29), but the ratio |r|m|/r|o replaces |t|i |/t|o, so that higher
bandgaps are ...
The Gaussian and Hermite-Gaussian beams then no longer provide good
approximations for the resonator modes. The problem of determining the modes
of a spherical-mirror resonator with finite-size mirrors is difficult. A wave is a mode
if it ...
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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
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