Advanced Photonic Sciences

The new emerging field of photonics has significantly attracted the interest of many societies, professionals and researchers around the world. The great importance of this field is due to its applicability and possible utilization in almost all scientific and industrial areas. This book presents some advanced research topics in photonics. It consists of 16 chapters organized into three sections: Integrated Photonics, Photonic Materials and Photonic Applications. It can be said that this book is a good contribution for paving the way for further innovations in photonic technology. The chapters have been written and reviewed by well-experienced researchers in their fields. In their contributions they demonstrated the most profound knowledge and expertise for interested individuals in this expanding field. The book will be a good reference for experienced professionals, academics and researchers as well as young researchers only starting their carrier in this field Preface Advanced Photonic Sciences 1 Part 1 Integrated Photonics 13 Chapter 1 Germanium-on-Silicon for Integrated Silicon Photonics 15 Chapter 2 Experimental Engineering of Photonic Quantum Entanglement 53 Chapter 3 Photonic Band Gap Engineered Materials for Controlling the Group Velocity of Light 65 Chapter 4 Manipulation of Photonic Orbital Angular Momentum for Quantum Information Processing 87 Part 2 Photonic Materials 115 Chapter 5 New Nanoglassceramics Doped with Rare Earth Ions and Their Photonic Applications 117 Chapter 6 Fianite in Photonics 145 Chapter 7 Hybrid Polyfluorene-Based Optoelectronic Devices 189 Chapter 8 Plasmonics for Green Technologies: Toward High-Efficiency LEDs and Solar Cells 209 Part 3 Photonics Applications 225 Chapter 9 Lightwave Refraction and Its Consequences: A Viewpoint of Microscopic Quantum Scatterings by Electric and Magnetic Dipoles 227 Chapter 10 High Resolution Laser Spectroscopy of Cesium Vapor Layers with Nanometric Thickness 267 Chapter 11 Confocal White Light Reflection Imaging for Characterization of Nanostructures 297 Chapter 12 Time Resolved Camera: The New Frontier of Imaging Devices 315 Chapter 13 High-Resolution Near-Field Optical Microscopy: A Sub-10 Nanometer Probe for Surface Electromagnetic Field and Local Dielectric Trait 335 Chapter 14 LIDAR Atmospheric Sensing by Metal Vapor and Nd:YAG Lasers 357