Microoptics

From the reviews: "The book brings together contributions from different areas of microoptics to describe the status of their work. ... the volume not only simply commands a presence of every bookshelf of graduate students, teachers, and researchers in industry ... but also belongs to the library of everyone wishing to stay better equipped with up-to-date-information with many new results. The book is bound to influence the knowledge and way of thinking of researchers in industry ... ." (Current Engineering Practice, Vol. 47 (3), 2004-2005)

• Microstructure Technology for Optical Component Fabrication.- Microlithographic Pattern Generation for Optics.- Modeling of Free-Space Microoptics.- Modeling of Photonic Waveguides and Circuits.- Modeling of Waveguide-Optical Devices by the Method of Lines.- Microoptics Using the LIGA Technology.- Modular Fabrication Concept for LIGA-Based Microoptics.- Fabrication of Optical Waveguides in Dielectrics by Femtosecond Laser Pulses.- Integrated Planar Erbium-Doped Waveguide Amplifiers: Technological and Optical Considerations.- Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Waveguides.- Interferometric Measurement of Microlenses Including Cylindrical Lenses.- The Integrated Microlens: The Development of Vertical and Horizontal Integration.- Planar-Integrated Free-Space Optics: From Components to Systems.- Microoptical Structures for Semiconductor Light Sources.- Microoptic Sensors.- Fiber-Optic Gyros and MEMS Accelerometers.- Microoptical Applications in Spectrally Encoded Fiber Sensor Systems.- Microoptical Beam Shaping for Supershort-Pulse Lasers.