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Photonics: Optical Electronics in Modern Communications (The Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Photonics: Optical Electronics in Modern Communications (The Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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Photonics: Optical Electronics in Modern Communications (The Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering)

 
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Due to its central role in modern communications technologies, photonics--or optical electronics--has evolved dynamically over the last ten years. Photonics by Amnon Yariv and Pochi Yeh is extensively revised and updated to keep pace with this unprecedented development. Now more tailored to optical communication, the sixth edition integrates material on generating and manipulating optical radiation and designing photonic components for the transmission of information. It also presents a broader theoretical underpinning and more explanations of mathematical derivations than the previous edition.

The text describes the basic physics and principles of operation of major photonic components in optical communications and electronics. These components include optical resonators, various lasers, waveguides, optical fibers, gratings, and photonic crystals. photonics, Sixth Edition, also covers the transmission, modulation, amplification, and detection of optical beams in optical networks, as well as nonlinear optical effects in fibers. It assumes a background in electromagnetic theory, Maxwell's equations, and electromagnetic wave propagation.

Including numerous examples throughout, Photonics, Sixth Edition, is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in photonics, optoelectronics, or optical communications. It is also a useful reference for practicing engineers and scientists.

New Material in the Sixth Edition


·Stokes Parameters and Poincar� Sphere: polarization states in birefringent optical networks, principal states of polarization


·Fermat's Principle: rays, beam propagation, and the Fresnel diffraction integral


·Matrix Formulation: wave propagation in multi-cavity etalons, multi-layer structures, mode coupling, and supermodes in mode-locked lasers


·Dispersion: chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in fibers and their compensation


·Coupled Resonators Optical Waveguides (CROWs): matrix formulation, critical coupling and dispersion relation


·Nonlinear Optical Effects in Fibers: self-phase modulation, cross-phase modulation, stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS), stimulated Raman scattering (SRS), optical four-wave mixing, and spectral reversal (phase conjugation)


·Electroabsorption: waveguide electro-optic Mach-Zehnder modulators


·Photonic Crystals: Bloch wave formulation, photonic bands, photonic bandgaps, periodic layered media, fiber Bragg gratings, and Bragg reflection waveguides


·Optical Amplifiers: SOA, EDFA, and Raman

 
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Product Details
Author:Amnon Yariv
Hardcover:848 pages
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date:January 26, 2006
Language:English
ISBN:0195179463
Product Width:189.5 centimeters
Product Height:237.5 centimeters
Product Weight:3.24 pounds
Package Length:9.3 inches
Package Width:7.7 inches
Package Height:1.4 inches
Package Weight:3.15 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 4 reviews

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10 of 11 found the following review helpful:


4Great book, but semiconductor devices need update...  Nov 02, 2006 By Steven J. Wojtczuk
An excellent book on the optics side, with good theoretical derivations on many topics. However, I wish that the sections on semiconductor devices were more extensively updated in one of these new editions, especially since Yariv's group at CalTech were pioneers in the field of semiconductor lasers, and it would be well worth knowing what insights he can give on modern devices. For example, there is no discussion of strained quantum wells that I could find. The book has an excellent discussion of Bragg mirrors, and some discussion of their use in DFB lasers and VCSELs, but nothing about resonant cavity LEDs or resonant cavity photodiodes (or even just plain vanilla LEDs). The description of APDs is one of the few covered areas that is not rigorous. Of course, the book is a reasonable size, and so cannot contain everything, but I get the feeling that the semiconductor device areas were hardly touched from earlier editions. However, most of what Yariv and Yeh do cover, they do so in a detailed manner, so this is still a good book to have around. Chapters:

1. Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
2. Rays and Optical Beams
3. Guided waves in Dielectric Slabs and Fibers
4. Optical Resonators
5. Interaction of Radiation and Atomic Systems
6. Theory of Laser Oscillation and Some Specific Laser Systems
7. Chromatic Dispersion and Polarization Mode Dispersion in Fibers
8. Nonlinear Optics
9. Electro-Optic Modulation of Laser Beams
10. Noise in Optical Detection and Generation
11. Detection of Optical Radiation
12. wave propagation in Periodic Media
13. Waveguide Coupling
14. Nonlinear Optical Effects in Fibers
15. Semiconductor Lasers-Theory and Applications
16. Advanced Semiconductor Lasers
17. Optical Amplifiers
18. Classical Treatment of Quantum Noise and Squeezed States

Appendixes:
A. Wave Equation in Cylindrical Coordinates and Bessel Functions
B. Exact Solutions of the Step-Index Circular Waveguide
C. Kramers-Kronig Relations
D. Transformation of a Coherent Electromagnetic Field by a Thin Lens
E. Fermi Level and its Temperature Dependence
F. Electro-optic Effect in Cubic 43m Crystals
G. Conversion for Power Units and Attenuation Units

3 of 3 found the following review helpful:


2Photonics  Feb 15, 2010 By Douglas Weinhold
This text struggles to relate the mathematics to the theory. A nice supplement to a solid theory source, but lacking as a stand alone teaching tool is how I would describe this book.


5Sound and to the Point  Feb 11, 2011 By pmcG@Oxford
The book presents the material as clearly as one could expect it to be written. The material is difficult no matter the format, but the ideas are presented clearly and that's all I think you can really expect from a text. I would recommend this ahead of all the other texts I have used pertaining to Optics in my undergrad and grad-school programs simply because of the heightened clarity and the logical progression of subject matter. I bought this book new and I don't regret it.

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5The best book in the world market about photonic device design?  Mar 30, 2009 By Kittipong Tripetch "Kan"
I belive that this author wrote this textbook with the mind of mentor. This book is very easy to understand. I spent less than 1 hour about this book. I hope I will gain much knowledge from this book in as fast as I can!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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