Integrated Optics
Edition: 5th ed. edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9783540433415
Subjects: Applied optics; Science/Mathematics; Optical Engineering; Science; Technology & Industrial Arts; Electronics - Optoelectronics; Fiber Optics; Optics; Science / Optics; Technology / Optics; Technology-Electronics - Optoelectronics; Technology-Fiber Optics; microwave wireless systems; optical amplifiers; optical waveguides; optoelectronic devices; semiconductor lasers; Integrated optics
First sentence: The transmission and processing of signals carried by optical beams rather than by electrical currents or radio waves has been a topic of great interest ever since the early 1960s, when the development of the laser first provided a stable source of coherent light for such applications.