Presented at increasing levels of complexity, these sections serve as building blocks for the treatment of more advanced topics, such as Fourier optics and holography, guidedwave and fiber optics, photon sources and detectors, electro-optic and acousto-optic devices, nonlinear optical devices, fiber-optic communications, and photonic switching and computing. Included are such vital topics as:
- Generation of coherent light by lasers, and incoherent light by luminescence sources such as light-emitting diodes
- Transmission of light through optical components (lenses, apertures, and imaging systems), waveguides, and fibers
- Modulation, switching, and scanning of light through the use of electrically, acoustically, and optically controlled devices
- Amplification and frequency conversion of light by the use of wave interactions in nonlinear materials Detection of light by means of semiconductor photodetectors
Each chapter contains summaries, highlighted equations, problem sets and exercises, and selected reading lists. Examples of real systems are included to emphasize the concepts governing applications of current interest, and appendices summarize the properties of one- and two-dimensional Fourier transforms, linear-systems theory, and modes of linear systems.
An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department.