Essentials of Photonics, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Rogers, Alan

Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 486
Edition: 2nd ed
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Photons and ElectronsHistorical SketchThe Wave Nature of LightPolarizationThe Electromagnetic SpectrumEmission and Absorption ProcessesPhoton Statistics The Behaviour of Electrons LasersSummaryWave Properties of LightThe Electromagnetic SpectrumWave RepresentationElectromagnetic WavesReflection and RefractionTotal Internal ReflectionInterference of LightLight WaveguidingInterferometersDiffractionGaussian Beams and Read more...

Abstract: Photons and ElectronsHistorical SketchThe Wave Nature of LightPolarizationThe Electromagnetic SpectrumEmission and Absorption ProcessesPhoton Statistics The Behaviour of Electrons LasersSummaryWave Properties of LightThe Electromagnetic SpectrumWave RepresentationElectromagnetic WavesReflection and RefractionTotal Internal ReflectionInterference of LightLight WaveguidingInterferometersDiffractionGaussian Beams and Stable Optical ResonatorsPolarization OpticsThe Polarization EllipseCrystal OpticsRetarding WaveplatesA Variable Waveplate: The Soleil-Babinet Compensator Polarizing PrismsLinear Bir

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front cover
Contents
Preface
The Author
Chapter 1. Photons and Electrons
Chapter 2. Wave Properties of Light
Chapter 3. Polarization Optics
Chapter 4. Light and Matter
Chapter 5. Optical Coherence and Correlation
Chapter 6. Some Essential Physics of Radiation and Solids
Chapter 7. Optical Sources, Modulators, and Detectors
Chapter 8. Optical Waveguides
Chapter 9. Nonlinear Optics
Chapter 10. Photonics in Action
Chapter 11. Epilogue
Chapter 12. Appendices
Chapter 13. Answers to Numerical Questions
Index
Back cover

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