Book Description:
This new book maps out the frontiers of optical technology in two major subdisciplines: optical materials and optical devices. The optical materials and material architectures covered include nanostructured silicon, chiral sculptured thin films, magnetic photonic crystals, and switchable materials for efficient lighting and decorative optics. The optical devices addressed include silicon waveguides for integrated circuitry, high-speed electro-optic modulators, laser diodes coupled with fiber-tip lenses, and optical sensors. Reading the ten chapters, either altogether or piecemeal, the reader will receive a virtually up-to-date review of the state of the art.

Table of Contents:
Chapter Availability

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Preface

Chapter 1 Towards Shaping of Pulsed Plane Waves in the Time Domain Via Chiral Sculptured Thin Films
(Joseph B. Geddes III)
pp. 1-21

Chapter 2 One-dimensional Bigyrotropic Magnetic Photonic Crystals: Non-defect and Defect Structures
(N.N. Dadoenkova, et al., Donetsk Institute for Physics and Technology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
pp. 23-72

Chapter 3 Integrated Optics on Silicon
(Ulrich Hilleringmann, University of Paderborn, Germany)
pp. 73-95

Chapter 4 Photonics Applications of Nano-silicon
(Lorenzo Pavesi, Università di Trento, Italy)
pp. 97-124

Chapter 5 Combining Energy Efficiency with Aesthetic Appeal Using Advanced Optical Materials
(Geoffrey B. Smith, University of Technology at Sydney, Australia)
pp. 125-158

Chapter 6 High-speed Optical Modulators and Photonic Sideband Management
(Tetsuya Kawanishi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
pp. 159-190

Chapter 7 Lateral Biasing in P-N Junction Light Emitters: HELLISH evices
(J. Y. Wah, Multimedia University, Malaysia and N.C. Balkan, University of Essex, UK)
pp. 191-212

Chapter 8 Techniques and Analyses of Coupling Between Laser Diode and Fiber-Based Microlens
(Faidz Abd. Rahman, Multimedia University, Malaysia)
pp. 213-234

Chapter 9 An Overview of Optical Sensors and their Applications (Pankaj Kr. Choudhury and Onkar N. Singh)
pp.235-271

Chapter 10 Optical Current Sensors
(Toshihiko Yoshino, The Kaisei Academy, Japan and Masayuki Yokota, Gunma University, Japan)
pp. 237-287

Index.