Kress / Meyrueis Applied Digital Optics

From Micro-optics to Nanophotonics
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-470-02264-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 638 Seiten, E-Book

Miniaturization and mass replications have begun to lead theoptical industry in the transition from traditional analog to noveldigital optics. As digital optics enter the realm of mainstreamtechnology through the worldwide sale of consumer electronicdevices, this timely book aims to present the topic of digitaloptics in a unified way. Ranging from micro-optics tonanophotonics, and design to fabrication through to integration infinal products, it reviews the various physical implementations ofdigital optics in either micro-refractives, waveguide (planarlightwave chips), diffractive and hybrid optics or sub-wavelengthstructures (resonant gratings, surface plasmons, photonic crystalsand metamaterials). Finally, it presents a comprehensive list ofindustrial and commercial applications that are taking advantage ofthe unique properties of digital optics.
Applied Digital Optics is aimed primarily at opticalengineers and product development and technical marketing managers;it is also of interest to graduate-level photonics students andmicro-optic foundries.
* Helps optical engineers review and choose the appropriatesoftware tools to design, model and generate fabricationfiles.
* Gives product managers access to an exhaustive list ofapplications available in today's market for integrating suchdigital optics, as well as where the next potential application ofdigital optics might be.
* Provides a broad view for technical marketing managers in allaspects of digital optics, and how such optics can beclassified.
* Explains the numerical implementation of optical design andmodelling techniques.
* Enables micro-optics foundries to integrate the latestfabrication and replication techniques, and accordingly fine tunetheir own fabrication processes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kress, Bernard C.

Meyrueis, Patrick

Über Autor(innen)

Bernard Kress has been involved in the field of digitaloptics since the late 1980s. He is an associate professor at theUniversity of Strasbourg, France, teaching digital optics. For thelast 15 years Dr Kress has been developing technologies andproducts related to digital optics. He has been working withestablished industries around the world and with start-ups in theSilicon Valley, California, with applications ranging from opticaldata storage, optical telecom, military and homeland securityapplications, LED and laser displays, industrial and medicalsensors, biotechnology systems, optical security devices, highpower laser material processing, to consumer electronics. He is onthe advisory boards of various photonics companies in the US andhas also been advising venture capital firms in the Silicon Valleyfor due diligence reviews in photonics, especially in micro-and nano-optics.
He holds more than 25 patents based on digital optics technologyand applications, and is the author of more than 100 papers on thissubject. He has taught several short courses given at SPIEconferences. His first book on digital optics, DigitalDiffractive Optics (2000), was published by John Wiley &Sons, Ltd and has been translated into Japanese in 2005 (publishedby Wiley-Maruzen). He is also the author of a chapter in the bestseller Optical System Design (2007), edited by R. Fisher andpublished by McGraw-Hill. Bernard Kress can be contacted at [e-mail].
Patrick Meyrueis is full professor at the University ofStrasbourg since 1986 (formerly Louis Pasteur University). He isthe founder of the Photonics Systems Laboratory which is now one ofthe most advanced labs in the field of planar digital optics. He isthe author of more than 200 publications and was the chairman ofmore than 20 international conferences in photonics. He was therepresentative of the Rhenaphotonics cluster and one of thefounders of the CNOP in 2001 (national French committee of opticsand photonics). He is now acting as the scientific director of thePhotonics Systems Lab and the head of the PhD and undergraduateprogram in the ENSPS National School of Physics in Strasbourg.