Optical Electronics

by Ajoy Kumar Ghatak , K. Thyagarajan

• ISBN13: 9780521314084
• ISBN10: 0521314089
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-07-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This textbook provides senior undergraduates studying modern optics with a comprehensive account of optics and optical electronics. A large number of solved and unsolved problems are included in the book. The extensive coverage makes it valuable to postgraduates, and also to optical engineers, as a source of basic design information. The initial chapters cover the basic principles involved in the propagation of electromagnetic waves. These are followed by a description of diffraction and its application to spatial frequency filtering and holography. Laser theory and the various types of laser are covered, as well as the theory of optical waveguides, fibre optics and integrated optics. The final chapters cover electrooptics, acoustooptics, and nonlinear optical effects.

Table of Contents

1. Maxwell's equations and propagation of electromagnetic waves

2. Reflection and refraction of electromagnetic waves

3. Wave propagation in anisotropic media

4. Fraunhofer diffraction

5. Fresnel diffraction

6. Spatial frequency filtering

7. Holography

8. Lasers: I

9. Lasers: II

10. Some laser systems

11. Electromagnetic analysis of the simplest optical waveguide

12. Leaky modes in optical waveguides

13. Optical fibre waveguides

14. Integrated optics

15. The electrooptic effect

16. The strain optic tensor

17. Acoustooptic effect: Raman-Nath diffraction

18. Acoustooptic effect: Bragg diffraction

19. Acoustooptic devices

20. Non-linear optics

Appendices

References and suggested reading

Index.