Digital Modulation of Optical Carrier -- Coherent Optical Receivers and Ideal Performance -- Impairment to Optical Signal -- Nonlinear Phase Noise -- Compensation of Nonlinear Phase Noise -- Intrachannel Pulse-to-Pulse Interaction -- Wavelength-Division-Multiplexed DPSK Signals -- Multilevel Signaling -- Phase-Modulated Soliton Signals -- Capacity of Optical Channels.Fiber-optic communication s…
Gain and Absorption: Many-Body Effects -- Fabry-Perot Lasers: Temperature and Many-Body Effects -- Fabry-Perot Lasers: Thermodynamics-Based Modeling -- Distributed Feedback Lasers: Quasi-3D Static and Dynamic Model -- Multisection Lasers: Longitudinal Modes and their Dynamics -- Wavelength Tunable Lasers: Time-Domain Model for SG-DBR Lasers -- Monolithic Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers -- Vert…
CONSTRAINTS OF GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS: THE ATMOSPHERE -- INTERFERENCES -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES -- MODERN OPTICAL DESIGN -- STRUCTURAL MECHANICS -- SEGMENTED MIRROR TELESCOPES -- HECTOMETRIC OPTICAL TELESCOPES ESO'S 100-M OWL TELESCOPE CONCEPT -- OPTICAL FABRICATION FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OPTICAL TELESCOPES, TERRESTRIAL AND SPACE -- OPTICAL TESTING FOR THE NEXT GENERATI…
Eigenmodes of Photonic Crystals -- Symmetry of Eigenmodes -- Transmission Spectra -- Optical Response of Photonic Crystals -- Defect Modes in Photonic Crystals -- Band Calculation with Frequency-Dependent Dielectric Constants -- Photonic Crystal Slabs -- Low-Threshold Lasing Due to Group-Velocity Anomaly -- Quantum Optics in Photonic Crystals -- Superfluorescence -- Epilogue.This is the first c…
Summary of Optical Data Storage and the Future Trend -- Basic Theory of Optical Near-Field and Surface Plasmon Polaritons -- Near-Field Recording and Its Actual Methods -- Role of Surface Plasmons in Optical Disc -- Epilogue.This textbook is written for all those wishing to understand the concepts behind modern optical recording. It also paves the way towards the future science and technology b…
to Optical Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave Interference -- Principles of Optical Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave Interference -- Optical Sources for Optical Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave Interference -- Optical Detectors for Optical Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave Interference -- Coherence Theory of Optical Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave Interference -- Optical Frequency-…
Fiber Preparation and Alignment -- Mechanics of Fusion Splicing -- Optics of Fusion Splicing -- Splice Loss Estimation and Fiber Imaging -- Splice Strength, Reliability, and Packaging -- Splice Measurement and Characterization -- Splice Process Optimization and Special Splicing Strategies -- Fusion Splicing of Specialty Fiber -- Splicer Hardware: State of the Art.This book is an up-to-date trea…
Quantum Cryptography -- New OVDs for Personalized Documents Based on Color Holography and Lippmann Photography -- Distortion- and Noise-Robust Digital Watermarking Using Input and Fourier-Plane Phase Encoding -- Steganography and Encryption Systems Based on Spatial Correlators with Meaningful Output Images -- Optoelectronic Information Encryption with Incoherent Light -- Information Hiding: Ste…
Basic Nonlinear Optical Crystals -- Main Infrared Materials -- Often-Used Crystals -- Periodically Poled Crystals and “Wafer” Materials -- Newly Developed and Perspective Crystals -- Self-Frequency-Doubling Crystals -- Rarely Used and Archive Crystals -- Some Recent Applications -- Concluding Remarks.Nonlinear optical crystals are widely used in modern optical science and technology for fre…
Network Architectures -- Enabling Architectures for Next Generation Optical Networks -- Hybrid Hierarchical Optical Networks -- Advances in Passive Optical Networks (PONS) -- Regional-Metro Optical Networks -- Switching -- Optical Packet Switching -- Waveband Switching: A New Frontier in Optical WDM Networks -- Optical Burst Switching: Quality of Service, Multicast, and Operation and Maintenanc…