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Photonics : optical electronics in modern communications
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Designed for senior undergraduate/first year graduate students in electrical engineering departments, this text covers key subjects in optical electronics and their applications in modern optical c...
Designed for senior undergraduate/first year graduate students in electrical engineering departments, this text covers key subjects in optical electronics and their applications in modern optical communications where optical waves are used as carriers of information.
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- Creator
- Amnon Yariv, Pochi Yeh
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- English
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- 6th ed
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
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- xii, 836 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0195179463, 9780195179460
- OCLC
- ocm58648003
- Revised edition of: Optical electronics in modern communications. 5th ed., c1997.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Ch. 1. Electromagnetic fields and waves -- Ch. 2. Rays and optical beams -- Ch. 3. Guided waves in dielectric slabs and fibers -- Ch. 4. Optical resonators -- Ch. 5. Interaction of radiation and atomic systems -- Ch. 6. Theory of laser oscillation and some specific laser systems -- Ch. 7. Chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion in fibers -- Ch. 8. Nonlinear optics -- Ch. 9. Electro-optic modulation of laser beams -- Ch. 10. Noise in optical detection and generation -- Ch. 11. Detection of optical radiation -- Ch. 12. Wave propagation in periodic media -- Ch. 13. Waveguide coupling -- Ch. 14. Nonlinear optical effects in fibers -- Ch. 15. Semiconductor lasers -- theory and applications -- Ch. 16. Advanced semiconductor lasers -- Ch. 17. Optical amplifiers -- Ch. 18. Classical treatment of quantum noise and squeezed states -- App. A. Wave equation in cylindrical coordinates and Bessel functions -- App. B. Exact solutions of the step-index circular waveguide
- App. C. Kramers-Kronig relations -- App. D. Transformation of a coherent electromagnetic field by a thin lens -- App. E. Fermi level and its temperature dependence -- App. F. Electro-optic effect in cubic 43m crystals -- App. G. Conversion for power units and attenuation units