Glasses for Photonics

This book is an introduction to recent progress in the development and application of glass with special photonics properties. Glass has a number of structural and practical advantages over crystalline materials, including excellent homogeneity, variety of form and size, and the potential for doping with a variety of dopant materials. Glasses with photonic properties have great potential and are expected to play a significant role in the next generation of multimedia systems. Fundamentals of glass materials are explained in the first chapter, and the book then proceeds to a discussion of gradient index glass, laser glasses, nonlinear optical glasses and magneto-optical glasses. Beginning with the basic theory, the book discusses actual problems, performance and applications of glasses. The book will be of value to graduate students, researchers and professional engineers working in materials science, chemistry and physics with an interest in photonics and glass with special properties.

List of contents

1. Glass properties; 2. Gradient index glass; 3. Laser glass; 4. Nonlinear optical glass; 5. Magneto-optical glass.

Summary

This book is an introduction to recent progress in the development and application of glass with special photonics properties. Fundamentals of glass materials are explained in the first chapter, and the book then proceeds to a discussion of gradient index glass, laser glasses, nonlinear optical glasses and magneto-optical glasses.

Product details

• Authors: Yashiyuki Asahara, Yoshiyuki Asahara, Masayuki Yamane, Yamane Masayuki
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.2000
• EAN: 9780521580533
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58053-3
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 244 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 700 g
• Illustrations: 112 b/w illus. 46 tables, Zeichnungen, nicht spezifiziert, Raster, nicht spezifiziert, Tabellen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Optics, Materials science, Applied optics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Materials Science / General