Applied Digital Optics: From Micro-Optics to Nanophotonics

✍ Scribed by Bernard C. Kress, Patrick Meyrueis(auth.)

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 621
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Miniaturization and mass replications have begun to lead the optical industry in the transition from traditional analog to novel digital optics. As digital optics enter the realm of mainstream technology through the worldwide sale of consumer electronic devices, this timely book aims to present the topic of digital optics in a unified way. Ranging from micro-optics to nanophotonics, and design to fabrication through to integration in final products, it reviews the various physical implementations of digital optics in either micro-refractives, waveguide (planar lightwave chips), diffractive and hybrid optics or sub-wavelength structures (resonant gratings, surface plasmons, photonic crystals and metamaterials). Finally, it presents a comprehensive list of industrial and commercial applications that are taking advantage of the unique properties of digital optics.

Applied Digital Optics is aimed primarily at optical engineers and product development and technical marketing managers; it is also of interest to graduate-level photonics students and micro-optic foundries.

• Helps optical engineers review and choose the appropriate software tools to design, model and generate fabrication files.Content:
  Chapter 1 From Refraction to Diffraction (pages 5–13):
  Chapter 2 Classification of Digital Optics (pages 15–20):
  Chapter 3 Guided?Wave Digital Optics (pages 21–46):
  Chapter 4 Refractive Micro?Optics (pages 47–69):
  Chapter 5 Digital Diffractive Optics: Analytic Type (pages 71–109):
  Chapter 6 Digital Diffractive Optics: Numeric Type (pages 112–156):
  Chapter 7 Hybrid Digital Optics (pages 157–179):
  Chapter 8 Digital Holographic Optics (pages 181–215):
  Chapter 9 Dynamic Digital Optics (pages 217–252):
  Chapter 10 Digital Nano?Optics (pages 253–293):
  Chapter 11 Digital Optics Modeling Techniques (pages 295–338):
  Chapter 12 Digital Optics Fabrication Techniques (pages 339–411):
  Chapter 13 Design for Manufacturing (pages 413–452):
  Chapter 14 Replication Techniques for Digital Optics (pages 453–478):
  Chapter 15 Specifying and Testing Digital Optics (pages 479–520):
  Chapter 16 Digital Optics Application Pools (pages 521–579):