Microoptics - Hardcover

Sinzinger, Stefan; Jahns, Jürgen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3527294287 ISBN 13: 9783527294282

Publisher: Wiley VCH, 1999

Synopsis

Micro-optics has become one of the fastest developing areas of optical research. Technologies for the fabrication of micro-optical components have been adapted from very large scale integration processes. Parallel to passive micro-optical components, optoelectronics research has lead to miniaturised components which can be used as sources, detectors, or modulators for highly integrated optoelectronic systems. This volume gives an overview over the field of 3D micro-optics. It starts with an introduction to general aspects of micro-optics such as its definition, and the performance and scaling behavior of optical components. Then it focuses on planar fabrication techniques for microoptical components and presents a variety of components and optoelectronic devices which can be produced by these techniques. The reader is lead to array optics and connected to hot topics such as smart pixels. The last third of the book presents applications which cover optical memories, optical interconnection networks and optical computing.

About this title

Review:

"The book is beautifully organized and covers important and attractive topics in this field. I found in this book many descriptions which are expected by a lot of readers, i.e., smart pixel including surface emitting lasers, array illuminators, information processing, and so on." D.J. Walker Optik

From the Back Cover:

The continuing trend towards miniaturisation and integration, well-known from electronics, is also a significant factor for optical system development. Many novel applications depend on the availability of suitable components and (sub-)systems that offer features like small size, low cost, robustness, capability for integration with other technologies, etc. This is what micro-optics is about. For more than 20 years, there has been constant improvement in the area of micro-optics. The purpose of this book is to provide an overview of the latest activities on fabrication technology, modelling and design, systems integration and applications. The book brings together contributions from different areas of micro-optics to describe the status of their work. Configurations based on both, wave-guide and free-space optics are covered. The reader can expect up-to-date information with many new results. The book is intended for graduate students, teachers as well as researchers in industry.

Key features:

- offers a state of the art look at fabrication techologies for micro-optics

- provides scientific background and modelling of optics at the micro-scale

- looks at techniques for measuring micro-optical component properties

- includes various concepts and demonstrations for micro-optical systems

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley VCH
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 3527294287
• ISBN 13: 9783527294282
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 428