Optics Light And Lasers The Practical Approach To Modern Aspects Of Photonics And Laser Physics Dieter Meschede by Dieter Meschede 9783527685516, 3527685510 instant download after payment.

Preface
The field of optics - in modern times perhaps equivalent to photonics - has
become an important branch of the physical sciences and technologies. The saying
that the twenty-first century will be the century of the photon, following the
era of the electron, is gaining more and more credibility.
This textbook has attempted - and continues to do so - to link the central
topics of optics that were established 200 years ago to the most recent research
topics. Since the very first German language edition published already in 1999,
an impressive evolution of entire new directions has emerged.
Optical and photonics research is no longer conceivable without a wide range
of structured materials shaping the propagation of light fields. Optical fibers,
photonic materials, and metamaterials offer an unprecedented degree of control
over propagating optical fields. Inspiring concepts such as the “perfect lens”
and “optical angular momentum” are posing new conceptual and experimental
challenges and promise new and wide applications. Optical imaging has
overcome the classic and seemingly unsurmountable Rayleigh-Abbe limit of
resolution. Femtosecond laser frequency combs allow us today to perfectly count
every cycle of an optical frequency, that is, with ultimate precision. The next
development is looming: optical sciences are going to marry with information
technology - perhaps a natural consequence of the photon following the
footsteps of the electron.
While a single book can impossibly be big enough to discuss all these newtopics
at depth, this new edition picks them up selectively and links them to the fundamentals
of optical science. It can serve as a reference for teaching the foundations
of modern optics: classical optics, laser physics, laser spectroscopy, concepts of
quantum optics, and nonlinear optics - those remain the building blocks of all
experimental efforts and applications, but are frequently taken as “given” and no
longer scrutinized for a deeper understanding.
Dieter Meschede
Bonn, January 2017