Research Catalog

Title

The handbook of photonics / editor-in-chief, Mool C. Gupta.

Publication

Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

Gupta, M. C. (Mool Chand)

Description

xvi, 812 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Summary

"The rapidly growing area of photonics plays a critical role in many segments of industry, such as optical communications, information storage, electronic display, and other areas, and is the subject of intense academic and industrial research. The Handbook of Photonics serves as a single-source reference book for this exciting field."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Photonics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

III-V semiconductor materials / G.W. Wicks -- Optical properties and optoelectronic applications of II-VI semiconductor heterostructures / H. Luo and A. Petrou -- GaN and silicon carbide as optoelectronic materials / H. Morkoç -- Ferroelectric materials / Chia-Yen Li and Yuhuan Xu -- Nonlinear optics / Andrew J. Stentz and Robert W. Boyd -- Second-order nonlinear optical properties of organic materials / Lap Tak Cheng -- Optoelectronic devices / Ilesanmi Adesida and James J. Coleman -- Miniature solid-state lasers / J.J. Zayhowski and J. Harrison -- Optical modulators / John N. Lee -- Optical fibers / D.A. Nolan -- Binary optics / Michael W. Farn -- Gradient-index glass waveguide devices / S. Iraj Najafi and Seppo Honkanen -- Design methodology for guided-wave photonic devices / G.L. Yip -- Analog coherent optical processing / David Casasent -- Optical digital computing / Jürgen Jahns -- Optical communications / Alan E. Willner -- Optical data storage / Charles F. Brucker, Terry W. McDaniel, and Mool C. Gupta -- Electronic displays / Carlo Infante.

ISBN

0849389097

LCCN

^^^96043592^

OCLC

187431841

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Harvard Library