Introduction to nanophotonics
By: Sergey V. Gaponenko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9780521763752
Subjects: Nanophotonics
Description: Nanophotonics is where photonics merges with nanoscience and nanotechnology, and where spatial confinement considerably modifies light propagation and light-matter interaction. The textbook highlights practical issues, material properties and device feasibility, and includes the basic optical properties of metals, semiconductors and dielectrics. Mathematics is kept to a minimum and theoretical issues are reduced to a conceptual level. --from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Electrons and electromagnetic waves in nanostructures. Basic properties of electromagnetic waves and quantum particles; title: Wave optics versus wave mechanics I; title: electrons in periodic structures and quantum confinement effects; title: Semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots); title: Nanoplasmonics I: metal nanoparticles; title: Light in periodic structures: photonic crystals; title: Light in non-periodic structures; title: Photonic circuitry; title: Tunneling of light; title: Nanoplasmonics II: metal-dielectric nanostructures; title: Wave optics versus wave mechanics II; title: Light-matter interaction in nanostructures. LIght-matter interaction: introductory quantum electrodynamics; title: Density of states effects on optical proecesses in mesoscopic structures; title: Light-matter states beyond perturbational approach; title: Plasmonic enhancement of secondary radiation.