Introduction to Nanophotonics

Graduate-level textbook describing the principles of nanophotonics, for students in physics, optical and electronic engineering and materials science.

Sergey V. Gaponenko (Author)

9780521763752, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 April 2010

484 pages, 300 b/w illus. 126 exercises
25.3 x 19.4 x 2.5 cm, 1.21 kg

'An explanation of notations and acronyms used in the text is given at the start of the book, this being a most useful and welcome feature … written in a clear English style … unreservedly recommended as a guide to what will be an area of imaging that holds great promise for the future.' The Imaging Science Journal

Nanophotonics is where photonics merges with nanoscience and nanotechnology, and where spatial confinement considerably modifies light propagation and light-matter interaction. Describing the basic phenomena, principles, experimental advances and potential impact of nanophotonics, this graduate-level textbook is ideal for students in physics, optical and electronic engineering and materials science. The textbook highlights practical issues, material properties and device feasibility, and includes the basic optical properties of metals, semiconductors and dielectrics. Mathematics is kept to a minimum and theoretical issues are reduced to a conceptual level. Each chapter ends in problems so readers can monitor their understanding of the material presented. The introductory quantum theory of solids and size effects in semiconductors are considered to give a parallel discussion of wave optics and wave mechanics of nanostructures. The physical and historical interplay of wave optics and quantum mechanics is traced. Nanoplasmonics, an essential part of modern photonics, is also included.

Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. Electrons and Electromagnetic Waves in Nanostructures: 2. Basic properties of waves and quantum particles
3. Wave optics versus wave mechanics I
4. Electrons in periodic structures and quantum confinement effects
5. Semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots)
6. Nanoplasmonics I: metal nanoparticles
7. Light in periodic structures: photonic crystals
8. Light in non-periodic structures
9. Photonic circuitry
10. Tunneling of light
11. Nanoplasmonics II: metal-dielectric nanostructures
12. Wave optics versus wave mechanics II
Part II. Light–Matter Interaction in Nanostructures: 13. Light–matter interaction: introductory
14. Density of states effects on optical processes
15. Light–matter interaction beyond perturbational approach
16. Plasmonic enhancement of secondary radiation
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Materials science [TGM], Nanotechnology [TBN], Optical physics [PHJ]