Microcavities

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-960227-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 860 g

Rapid development of microfabrication and assembly of nanostructures has opened up many opportunities to miniaturize structures that confine light, producing unusual and extremely interesting optical properties. This book addresses the large variety of optical phenomena taking place in confined solid state structures: microcavities. Realisations include planar and pillar microcavities, whispering gallery modes, and photonic crystals. The microcavities represent a unique laboratory for quantum optics and photonics. They exhibit a number of beautiful effects including lasing, superfluidity, superradiance, entanglement etc. Written by four practitioners strongly involved in experiments and theories of microcavities, it is addressed to any interested reader having a general physical background, but in particular to undergraduate and graduate students at physics faculties.

Zielgruppe

Students and researchers in physics, engineering, and opto-electronics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kavokin, Alexey

Baumberg, Jeremy J.

Malpuech, Guillaume

Laussy, Fabrice P.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Elektronik, Optik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Quantenoptik, Nichtlineare Optik, Laserphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technische Optik, Lasertechnologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Angewandte Optik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nanotechnologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Physik, Chemie für Ingenieure

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Overview of microcavities

- 2: Classical description of light

- 3: Quantum description of light

- 4: Semi-classical description of light-matter coupling

- 5: Quantum description of light-matter coupling in semiconductors

- 6: Weak-coupling microcavities

- 7: Strong coupling: resonant effects

- 8: Strong coupling: polariton Bose condensation

- 9: Spin and polarisation

- Appendices

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kavokin, Alexey
Alexey Kavokin, Chair of Nanophysics and Photonics at the University of Southampton and Chair of Excellence at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

Malpuech, Guillaume
Guillaume Malpuech, CNRS Researcher, Head of Group at the Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Baumberg, Jeremy J.
Jeremy J. Baumberg, Head of the Quantum Light and Matter group at the Physics and Astronomy School of the Southampton University

Laussy, Fabrice P.
Fabrice P. Laussy, Department of Theoretical Physics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Alexey Kavokin, Chair of Nanophysics and Photonics at the University of Southampton and Chair of Excellence at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Jeremy J. Baumberg, Head of the Quantum Light and Matter group at the Physics and Astronomy School of the Southampton University, Guillaume Malpuech, CNRS Researcher, Head of Group at the Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France, and Fabrice P. Laussy, Department of Theoretical Physics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid