Nanophotonics

• Main Author: McGurn, Arthur (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 213
• Subjects: Lasers.; Photonics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Microwaves.; Optical engineering.; Semiconductors.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Classical Electrodynamics.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.; Optical and Electronic Materials.

This book gives a readable introduction to the important, rapidly developing, field of nanophotonics. It provides a quick understanding of the basic elements of the field, allowing students and newcomers to progress rapidly to the frontiers of their interests. Topics include: The basic mathematical...

Table of Contents:

• General Introduction and overview of the text: Qualitative remarks about the systems and effects found in nanophotonics and their important technological applications
• Mathematical preliminaries
• Photonic crystals
• Metamaterials
• Plasmmonics
• Subwavelength focusing
• Near-field scanning optical microscopy
• Optical tweezers
• Trapped atoms
• Discussions of some of the basic techniques of experimental implementation of the ideas of nanophotonics.