Govind P. Agrawal (New York University of Rochester)

Physics and Engineering of Graded-Index Media

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book synthesises recent research developments in the growing field of graded-index media, presenting both the underlying physical principles behind optical propagation in these materials and important engineering applications. The text will be useful for graduate students and researchers working in optics, photonics and optical communications.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 315
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 792g
• ISBN-13: 9781009282079
• ISBN-10: 1009282077
• Artikelnr.: 67442160

Autorenporträt

Govind P. Agrawal is James C. Wyant Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester. He is a Fellow of Optica, a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Optical Society of India. He has been awarded the IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award, the Riker University Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, the Esther Hoffman Beller Medal, the Max Born Award of Optica, and the Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physical Society. He has also served as Editor-in-Chief for the Optica journal Advances in Optics and Photonics. He is author, with Malin Premaratne, of Theoretical Foundations of Nanoscale Quantum Devices (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Wave Propagation
3. Focusing and Self-Imaging
4. Dispersive Effects
5. Nonlinear Optical Phenomena
6. Effects of Loss or Gain
7. Nonuniform GRIN Media
8. Vortex Beams
9. Photonic Spin-Orbit Coupling
10. Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials
11. Impact of Partial Coherence
Appendix A. Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
Appendix B. Fractional Fourier Transform
Appendix C. List of Acronyms
Index.