Essentials of Optoelectronics with Applications (Optical and Quantum Electronics Series) - Softcover

Rogers, Alan

9780412408908: Essentials of Optoelectronics with Applications (Optical and Quantum Electronics Series)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0412408902 ISBN 13: 9780412408908

Publisher: CRC Press, 1997

Essentials of Optoelectronics offers a comprehensive treatment of the optical and electronic principles that form the foundation of optoelectronics. Along with the fundamentals, the material includes detailed coverage of lasers, waveguides (including optical fibers), detectors, nonlinear optics, optical signal processing, and optical computing.

In a self-contained presentation that foregoes detailed mathematical analysis in favor of building deeper insight, the author imparts a fundamental understanding of the subject and its applications. He focuses on physical ideas, demonstrates their interdependence, and develops them to explain the more complex phenomena. Professor Rogers reinforces and enlivens the concepts with detailed examples of current applications ranging from antireflective coatings and audio CDs to holography and coherent detection in optical fibre communications systems.

With exercise sets, references, and suggestions for further reading in each chapter, Essentials of Optoelectronics forms an outstanding introductory text that helps interest, enlighten, and stimulate students to further pursue the subject.

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From the Back Cover:

Modern optoelectronics was stimulated by the invention of the laser in 1960. This conjunction of modern optics and electronics provides a range of powerful new techniques with applications from consumer and industrial devices through guidance and lidar systems to leading edge technologies such as optical communications, signal processing, sensing and optical computing.;Professor Rogers provides comprehensive coverage of the optical and electronic principles which are the foundation of optoelectronics. Ideas are introduced at the physical level and then developed, via the necessary formalisms, to the point where the reader can understand their importance when applied to practical examples drawn from present-day technologies. These carefully chosen, detailed examples give graphic illustration to the principles concerned.;"Essentials of Optoelectronics" aims to prove useful to advanced students of physics and electronics entering optoelectronics.;This book should be of interest to final year undergraduate and graduate in electrical engineering and physics (lower in a few departments).

About the Author:

Alan Rogers is Head of Department, Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King's College London, UK.

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