The continuing trend towards miniaturisation and integration, well-known from electronics, is also a significant factor for optical system development. Many novel applications depend on the availability of suitable components and (sub-)systems that offer features like small size, low cost, robustness, capability for integration with other technologies, etc. This is what micro-optics is about. For more than 20 years, there has been constant improvement in the area of micro-optics. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the latest activities on fabrication technology, modelling and design, systems integration and applications. The book brings together contributions from different areas of micro-optics to describe the status of their work. Configurations based on both, wave-guide and free-space optics are covered. The reader can expect up-to-date information with many new results. The book is intended for graduate students, teachers as well as researchers in industry.

Key features:

• offers a state of the art look at fabrication techologies for micro-optics

• provides scientific background and modelling of optics at the micro-scale

• looks at techniques for measuring micro-optical component properties

• includes various concepts and demonstrations for micro-optical systems

  Klappentext

  Microoptics is still an emerging field with a huge potential for a large number of applications. This monograph brings together the most recent developments in order to give a broad overview.

  Inhalt

  Contents Introduction Jurgen Jahns, Karl-Heinz Brenner Microstructure Technology for Optical Component Fabrication E.-Bernhard Kley, Lars-Christian Wittig, Andreas Tunnermann Microlithographic Pattern Generation for Optics Bernd Schnabel Modeling of Free-Space Microoptics Uwe D. Zeitner, Peter Schreiber, Wolfgang Karthe Modeling of Photonic Waveguides and Circuits Reinhard M arz Modeling of Waveguide-Optical Devices by the Method of Lines Reinhold Pregla Microoptics using the LIGA Technology Ines Frese Modular Fabrication Concept for LIGA-based Microoptics Jurgen Mohr, Arndt Last, Ulrike Wallrabe Fabrication of optical waveguides in dielectrics by femtosecond laser pulses Stefan Nolte, Matthias Will, Jonas Burgho., Andreas Tunnermann Integrated Planar Erbium-Doped Waveguide Amplifiers: Technological and Optical Considerations Matthias Brinkmann, Ste.en Reichel, Joseph S. Hayden Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Waveguides Cecile Jamois, Ralf Boris Wehrspohn, Christian Hermann, Ortwin Hess, Lucio Claudio Andreani, Ulrich G osele Interferometric Measurement of Microlenses Including Cylindrical Lenses Norbert Lindlein, J urgen Lamprecht, Johannes Schwider The Integrated Microlens - The Development of Vertical and Horizontal Integration Masahiro Oikawa Planar-Integrated Free-Space Optics - from Components to Systems Matthias Gruber, Jurgen Jahns Microoptical Structures for Semiconductor Light Sources Werner Spath Microoptic Sensors Albrecht Brandenburg Fiber Optic Gyros and MEMS Accelerometers Andreas Rasch, Eberhard Handrich, G unter Spahlinger, Martin Hafen, Sven Voigt, Michael Weingartner Microoptical Applications in Spectrally Encoded Fiber Sensor Systems Hartmut Bartelt Micro-Optical Beam Shaping for Supershort-Pulse Lasers Rudiger Grunwald,Volker Kebbel Index