Description

Rapid development of microfabrication and assembly of nanostructures has opened up many opportunities to miniaturize structures that confine light, producing unusual and extremely interesting optical properties. Microcavities addresses the large variety of optical phenomena taking place in confined solid state structures: microcavities. Realisations include planar and pillar microcavities, whispering gallery modes, and photonic crystals. The microcavities represent a unique laboratory for quantum optics and photonics. They exhibit a number of beautiful effects including lasing, superfluidity, superradiance, entanglement etc.

Written by four practitioners strongly involved in experiments and theories of microcavities, it is addressed to any interested reader having a general physical background, but in particular to undergraduate and graduate students at physics faculties.

Features

• Paperback is updated to reflect state of the art, and a new index is provided
• First textbook covering fully the physics of microcavities
• Reviews the extremely rapid progress in this area of physics over the last decade
• Overview gives a commanding perspective for creating new generations of opto-electronic devices based on microcavities
• Combines basic theoretical concepts with descriptions of recent experiments
• Richly illustrated, with chapter summaries and ample range of exercises throughout the book

Product Details

432 pages; 98 line drawings and 63 b/w halftone illus.; ISBN13: 978-0-19-922894-2ISBN10: 0-19-922894-9

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