Glasses for Photonics

An authoritative work on photonic glasses by top Japanese authors.

Masayuki Yamane (Author), Yoshiyuki Asahara (Author)

9780521018616, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 22 August 2005

284 pages, 112 b/w illus. 46 tables
25.4 x 18.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.732 kg

This book is an introduction to recent progress in the development and application of glass with special photonics properties. Glass has a number of structural and practical advantages over crystalline materials, including excellent homogeneity, variety of form and size, and the potential for doping with a variety of dopant materials. Glasses with photonic properties have great potential and are expected to play a significant role in the next generation of multimedia systems. Fundamentals of glass materials are explained in the first chapter, and the book then proceeds to a discussion of gradient index glass, laser glasses, nonlinear optical glasses and magneto-optical glasses. Beginning with the basic theory, the book discusses actual problems, performance and applications of glasses. The book will be of value to graduate students, researchers and professional engineers working in materials science, chemistry and physics with an interest in photonics and glass with special properties.

1. Glass properties
2. Gradient index glass
3. Laser glass
4. Nonlinear optical glass
5. Magneto-optical glass.

Subject Areas: Applied optics [TTB], Materials science [TGM]