Jia-Ming Liu is Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Liu has published over 250 scientific papers and holds 12 US patents, and is the author of Photonic Devices (Cambridge, 2005). He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Physical Society, the IEEE, and the Guggenheim Foundation.
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Preface Partial list of symbols 1. Basic concepts of optical fields 2. Optical properties of materials 3. Optical wave propagation 4. Optical coupling 5. Optical interference 6. Optical resonance 7. Optical absorption and emission 8. Optical amplification 9. Laser oscillation 10. Optical modulation 11. Photodetection Appendix A: symbols and notations Appendix B: SI metric system Appendix C: fundamental physical constants Appendix D: Fourier-transform relations Index.