Ebook: Optical Properties of Photonic Crystals
Author: Professor Kazuaki Sakoda (auth.)
- Tags: Applied Optics Optoelectronics Optical Devices, Crystallography
- Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences 80
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 2
- Language: English
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This is the first comprehensive textbook on the optical properties of photonic crystals. It deals not only with the properties of the radiation modes inside the crystals but also with their peculiar optical response to external fields. A general theory of linear and nonlinear optical response is developed in a clear and detailed fashion using the Green's function method. The symmetry of the eigenmodes is treated systematically using group theory to show how it affects the optical properties of photonic crystals. Important recent developments such as the enhancement of stimulated emission, second harmonic generation, quadrature-phase squeezing, and low-threshold lasing are also treated in detail and made understandable. Numerical methods are also emphasized. Thus this book provides both an introduction for graduate and undergraduate students and also key information for researchers in this field. This second edition has been updated and includes a new chapter on superfluorescence.
This is the first comprehensive textbook on the optical properties of photonic crystals. It deals not only with the properties of the radiation modes inside the crystals but also with their peculiar optical response to external fields. A general theory of linear and nonlinear optical response is developed in a clear and detailed fashion using the Green's function method. The symmetry of the eigenmodes is treated systematically using group theory to show how it affects the optical properties of photonic crystals. Important recent developments such as the enhancement of stimulated emission, second harmonic generation, quadrature-phase squeezing, and low-threshold lasing are also treated in detail and made understandable. Numerical methods are also emphasized. Thus this book provides both an introduction for graduate and undergraduate students and also key information for researchers in this field. This second edition has been updated and includes a new chapter on superfluorescence.
This is the first comprehensive textbook on the optical properties of photonic crystals. It deals not only with the properties of the radiation modes inside the crystals but also with their peculiar optical response to external fields. A general theory of linear and nonlinear optical response is developed in a clear and detailed fashion using the Green's function method. The symmetry of the eigenmodes is treated systematically using group theory to show how it affects the optical properties of photonic crystals. Important recent developments such as the enhancement of stimulated emission, second harmonic generation, quadrature-phase squeezing, and low-threshold lasing are also treated in detail and made understandable. Numerical methods are also emphasized. Thus this book provides both an introduction for graduate and undergraduate students and also key information for researchers in this field. This second edition has been updated and includes a new chapter on superfluorescence.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Eigenmodes of Photonic Crystals....Pages 13-41
Symmetry of Eigenmodes....Pages 43-80
Transmission Spectra....Pages 81-97
Optical Response of Photonic Crystals....Pages 99-123
Defect Modes in Photonic Crystals....Pages 125-150
Band Calculation with Frequency-Dependent Dielectric Constants....Pages 151-174
Photonic Crystal Slabs....Pages 175-186
Low-Threshold Lasing Due to Group-Velocity Anomaly....Pages 187-197
Quantum Optics in Photonic Crystals....Pages 199-210
Superfluorescence....Pages 211-241
Epilogue....Pages 243-245
Back Matter....Pages 247-253
This is the first comprehensive textbook on the optical properties of photonic crystals. It deals not only with the properties of the radiation modes inside the crystals but also with their peculiar optical response to external fields. A general theory of linear and nonlinear optical response is developed in a clear and detailed fashion using the Green's function method. The symmetry of the eigenmodes is treated systematically using group theory to show how it affects the optical properties of photonic crystals. Important recent developments such as the enhancement of stimulated emission, second harmonic generation, quadrature-phase squeezing, and low-threshold lasing are also treated in detail and made understandable. Numerical methods are also emphasized. Thus this book provides both an introduction for graduate and undergraduate students and also key information for researchers in this field. This second edition has been updated and includes a new chapter on superfluorescence.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Eigenmodes of Photonic Crystals....Pages 13-41
Symmetry of Eigenmodes....Pages 43-80
Transmission Spectra....Pages 81-97
Optical Response of Photonic Crystals....Pages 99-123
Defect Modes in Photonic Crystals....Pages 125-150
Band Calculation with Frequency-Dependent Dielectric Constants....Pages 151-174
Photonic Crystal Slabs....Pages 175-186
Low-Threshold Lasing Due to Group-Velocity Anomaly....Pages 187-197
Quantum Optics in Photonic Crystals....Pages 199-210
Superfluorescence....Pages 211-241
Epilogue....Pages 243-245
Back Matter....Pages 247-253
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