Integrated Photonics

All integrated optical components and devices make use of
"waveguides", where light is confined by total internal reflection.
The elements in such "photonic chip" are interconnected through
waveguides, and also the integrated optics components themselves
are fabricated using waveguide configuration, such as couplers,
switches, modulators, multiplexors, amplifiers and lasers, etc.
These components are integrated in a single substrate, thus
resulting in a compact and robust photonic device, which can be
optically connected through optical fibres.

With and increase in the number of integrated optical components
and devices emerging from the research laboratories to the market
place an up-to-date book is essential in collecting, summarizing
and presenting the new developed photonic devices. This includes
fundamental aspects, technical aspects (such as fabrication
techniques and materials) and characterisation and
performance.

This is an advanced text aimed at specialists in the field of
photonics, but who may be new to the field of integrated photonics.
The fundamental aspects have been carefully considered, and all the
topics covered by the book start at a medium level, making it
highly relevant for undergraduate and post-graduate students
following this discipline.

Auteur

Ginés Lifante is the author of Integrated Photonics: Fundamentals, published by Wiley.

Résumé
All integrated optical components and devices make use of "waveguides", where light is confined by total internal reflection. The elements in such "photonic chip" are interconnected through waveguides, and also the integrated optics components themselves are fabricated using waveguide configuration, such as couplers, switches, modulators, multiplexors, amplifiers and lasers, etc. These components are integrated in a single substrate, thus resulting in a compact and robust photonic device, which can be optically connected through optical fibres.
With and increase in the number of integrated optical components and devices emerging from the research laboratories to the market place an up-to-date book is essential in collecting, summarizing and presenting the new developed photonic devices. This includes fundamental aspects, technical aspects (such as fabrication techniques and materials) and characterisation and performance.
This is an advanced text aimed at specialists in the field of photonics, but who may be new to the field of integrated photonics. The fundamental aspects have been carefully considered, and all the topics covered by the book start at a medium level, making it highly relevant for undergraduate and post-graduate students following this discipline.

Contenu

Preface.

About the Author.

Introduction to Integrated Photonics.

Review of the Electromagnetic Theory of Light.

Theory of Integrated Optic Waveguides.

Coupled Mode Theory: Waveguide Gratings.

Light Propagation in Waveguides: The Beam Propagation
Method.

Note.

References.

Further Reading.

Appendix 1: Complex Notation of the Electric and Magnetic
Fields.

Appendix 2: Phase Shifts for TE and TM Incidence.

Appendix 3: Marcatili's Method for Solving Guided Modes in
Rectangular Channel Waveguides.

Appendix 4: Demonstration of Formula (4.3).

Appendix 5: Derivation of Formula (4.4).

Appendix 6: Fast Fourier Algorithm.

Appendix 7: Implementation of the Crank-Nicolson Propagation
Scheme.

Appendix 8: List of Abbreviations.

Appendix 9: Some Useful Physical Constants.

Index.