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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.36
EAN: 9780471839651
ISBN: 0471839655
Label: Wiley-Interscience
Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 992
Publication Date: 1991-08-15
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Studio: Wiley-Interscience
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In recent years, photonics has found increasing applications in such areas as communications, signal processing, computing, sensing, display, printing, and energy transport. Now, Fundamentals of Photonics is the first self-contained introductory-level textbook to offer a thorough survey of 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 light with matter, and the theory of semiconductor materials and their optical properties. Presented at increasing levels of complexity, these sections serve as building blocks for the treatment of more advanced topics, such as Fourier optics and holography, guidedwave and fiber optics, photon sources and detectors, electro-optic and acousto-optic devices, nonlinear optical devices, fiber-optic communications, and photonic switching and computing. Included are such vital topics as: - Generation of coherent light by lasers, and incoherent light by luminescence sources such as light-emitting diodes
- Transmission of light through optical components (lenses, apertures, and imaging systems), waveguides, and fibers
- Modulation, switching, and scanning of light through the use of electrically, acoustically, and optically controlled devices
- Amplification and frequency conversion of light by the use of wave interactions in nonlinear materials Detection of light by means of semiconductor photodetectors
Each chapter contains summaries, highlighted equations, problem sets and exercises, and selected reading lists. Examples of real systems are included to emphasize the concepts governing applications of current interest, and appendices summarize the properties of one- and two-dimensional Fourier transforms, linear-systems theory, and modes of linear systems. An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department.
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Summary: Fantastic.
Comment: Beautifully written. Very clear.
Second edition has gorgeous color illustrations.
Extremely comprehensive and covers all important facets of photonics:
lasers, nonlinear and classical optics, photons/atoms, electromagnetic theory, fiber optics, and tons more.
But most importantly, it explains things in plain old English so you can understand the concepts, then walks you through the math.
Typically considered an undergrad book but I think it has plenty of material suitable for grad level learning in this field and is better written than many grad-level books out there. If you want to learn about lasers, optics, fiber optics, etc. this is a good addition to the library.
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Summary: Fundamentals of Photonics Review
Comment: The book arrived in great condition, but I bought it new. This is a great text for Senior students with an EE or Elctro-Optics background. It would also be a great text for first year Master's students. The book tries to do a bit of everything and is a great reference for anyone interested in optics to the professional optical/electrical engineer.
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Summary: One of the Essential Books of Optics to Own
Comment: If you are in the field of optics or biomedical optics, there are three to four books which would be the most essential to own. The is one of them. This book is comprehensive, dealing with all the most critical areas in field, yet easy to read. It is either outstanding in understanding the most basic concepts, yet a phenomenal reference on the derivations of relationships whose origin is left to the imagination in most textbooks. This is a must buy.
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Summary: A very good reference book
Comment: I found out about this book when I was looking for some materials on Photonics Switching and Computing. These topics and All-Optical Switches and Bistable Optical Switches, Optical Interconnections are covered in Chapter 21
But Chapter 22 containing Fiber-Optic Communication is very brief and for more detail one needs to go look for Kaiser's book.
All in all this book tries to encompass all the components in PHOTONICS and in doing so lacks the depth in some topics. But the good thing is that the references and journal publications are listed at the end of each chapter.
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Summary: Part of Saleh and Teich's great legacy - a truly classic text
Comment: If you could only have one general photonics book - this is the one to have. It must have been a 'labor of love' to write - and it is truly outstanding in its comprehensiveness and clarity.
I use it constantly - wouldn't be without it.
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