Progress in Planar Optical Waveguides

This book provides a comprehensive description of various slab waveguide structures ranged from graded-index waveguide to symmetrical metal-cladding waveguide. In this book, the transfer Matrix method is developed and applied to analyze the simplest case and the complex generalizations. A novel symmetrical metal-cladding waveguide structure is proposed and systematically investigated for several issues of interest, such as biochemical sensing, Goos-Hänchen shift and the slow light effect, etc. Besides, this book summarizes the authors' research works on waveguides over the last decade. The readers who are familiar with basic optics theory may find this book easy to read and rather inspiring.

List of contents

Theory on dielectric slab waveguide.- Transfer matrix method and the graded-index waveguide.- Periodic waveguide and MQW waveguide.- Characterizing the feature parameters of optical waveguide.- Surface plasmon waves.- Symmetrical metal-cladding waveguide.- Goos-Hänchen shift.- Optical devices based on the attenuated total reflection.

About the author

Dr. Xianping Wang is the Assistant Professor at Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China.

Dr. Cheng Yin is the Assistant Professor at Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Power Transmission and Distribution Equipment Technology, Hohai University, China.

Prof. Zhuangqi Cao is a Professor of Physics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He has published 5 books, more than 200 journal papers, and owns 21 awarded patents.

Summary

This book provides a comprehensive description of various slab waveguide structures ranged from graded-index waveguide to symmetrical metal-cladding waveguide. In this book, the transfer Matrix method is developed and applied to analyze the simplest case and the complex generalizations. A novel symmetrical metal-cladding waveguide structure is proposed and systematically investigated for several issues of interest, such as biochemical sensing, Goos-Hänchen shift and the slow light effect, etc. Besides, this book summarizes the authors’ research works on waveguides over the last decade. The readers who are familiar with basic optics theory may find this book easy to read and rather inspiring.

Product details

• Authors: Zhuangqi Cao, Xianpin Wang, Xianping Wang, Chen Yin, Cheng Yin
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783662489826
• ISBN: 978-3-662-48982-6
• No. of pages: 241
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 17 mm x 248 mm
• Weight: 504 g
• Illustrations: XI, 241 p. 152 illus., 94 illus. in color.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics; Springer Tracts in Modern Physics; Springer Tracts in Modern Physics. Ergebnisse der exakten Naturwissenschaften
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Electricity, magnetism, optics; Laser, B, Elektrizität, Magnetismus und Elektromagnetismus, Optics, Lasers, Physics and Astronomy, Classical Electrodynamics, Optical physics, Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism, Electrodynamics, Photonics, Applied optics, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices