Elements of Photonics, Volume I: In Free Space and Special Media / Edition 1

by Keigo Iizuka

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471839385
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/06/2002
Series:	Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics , #41
Edition description:	Volume I ed.
Pages:	664
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

"...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

From the Publisher

This is Volume I of a two-volume text that blends fundamentals with applications and is appropriate for a fourth year undergraduate or first year graduate course, or as a resource for engineers. Iizuka (electrical and computer engineering, U. of Toronto) covers topics that apply to propagation in free space and special media such as anisotropic crystals. The eight chapters discuss Fourier optics; boundaries, and near-field optics and imaging; Fabry-Pérot resonators, beams, and radiation pressure; propagation of light in anisotropic crystals; optical properties of crystals under various external fields; polarization of light; how to construct and use the Poincaré sphere; and phase conjugate optics. Each chapter contains many examples and sample problems. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)