Updates the advancements made in the level of achievable integration of optical circuits and components in the last ten years--highlighting the commercial success of particular devices as well as introducing multiple facets of integrated optics.
"...provides a good overview of the close coupling between drive technology capability and requirements for successful system applications and describes the fabrication process and the design and performance of many IO devices....excellent help for students, physicists and engineers."---Optik
Innehållsförteckning
Commercialization of lithium niobate modulators; requirements for integrated optics devices in communication systems; silica waveguide devices; erbium doped gas waveguide devices; erbium doped lithium niobate waveguide devices; inP-based photonic circuits and components; polymeric thermo-optic digital optical switches; hybrid integration of optical devices on silicon; integrated optics in sensors - advances toward miniaturization; nonlinear integrated optical devices; design and simulation tools for integrated optics.
