QUANTUM ELECTRONICS — PRINCIPLE S AND APPLICATIONS

This textbook presents the theory underlying these essential technologies - optical fiber communications, integrated optics, and optical sensors. Taking a step-by-step format, Marcuse teaches the theory of light transmission in optical fibers and in dielectic optical waveguides. The text includes methods for calculating modes and their interactions. This second edition contains new material on coupled mode theory, coupled power theory, approximate and numerical methods, nonlinear effects, and soliton propagation Content: QUANTUM ELECTRONICS—PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS , Page ii Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv Dedication , Page v PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION , Pages xi-xii PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION , Pages xiii-xv Chapter 1 - THE ASYMMETRIC SLAB WAVEGUIDE , Pages 1-59 , Dietrich Marcuse Chapter 2 - WEAKLY GUIDING OPTICAL FIBERS , Pages 60-96 , Dietrich Marcuse Chapter 3 - COUPLED MODE THEORY , Pages 97-133 , Dietrich Marcuse Chapter 4 - APPLICATIONS OF THE COUPLED MODE THEORY , Pages 134-176 , Dietrich Marcuse Chapter 5 - COUPLED POWER THEORY , Pages 177-250 , Dietrich Marcuse Chapter 6 - THEORY OF THE DIRECTIONAL COUPLER , Pages 251-279 , Dietrich Marcuse Chapter 7 - GRATING-ASSISTED DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS , Pages 280-304 , Dietrich Marcuse Chapter 8 - APPROXIMATE AND NUMERICAL METHODS , Pages 305-334 , Dietrich Marcuse Chapter 9 - NONLINEAR EFFECTS , Pages 335-365 , Dietrich Marcuse REFERENCES , Pages 367-372 INDEX , Pages 373-380 Quantum Electronics—Principles and Applications , Page 381 Theory of Dialectric Optical Waveguides, Second Edition focuses on the practical usage of optical waveguides. This book explores the rapid growth of integrated optics, which is devoted to the development of microscopic optical circuits based on thin film technology. Organized into nine chapters, this edition starts with an overview of the properties of dielectric slab waveguides. This book then examines the theory of directional couplers with and without diffraction gratings. Other chapters describe the numerical methods for solving guided mode as well as wave propagation problems. This text discusses as well the beam propagation method and the popular effective refractive index method. The final chapter deals with the significance of nonlinear phenomena. This book is a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate students of physics and electrical engineering. Practicing engineers and scientists in the fields of integrated optics, optical communications, and fiber sensors will find this book extremely useful. Presents the theory underlying the technologies of optical fibre communications, integrated optics, and optical sensors. It includes new material on coupled mode theory, coupled power theory, approximate and numerical methods, nonlinear effects, and soliton propagation. Theory of Dielectric Optical Waveguides 2e