Jürgen Jahns is Professor for Optical Information Technology at the University of Hagen. His fields of activity in micro- and nanooptics are systems integration, diffractive optics, optical computing, and sensorics. Before entering the academic career he spent almost a decade in industrial research at Siemens AG, München and AT&T Bell Labs, NJ (now Alcatel Lucent). He is author of several books on Microoptics and Advisory Editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of Korea.Stefan Helfert is Adjunct Professor for Electrical Engineering at the University of Hagen. He dedicates his activities to the development of optical wave guides, microoptical components and integrated optics.

“The aim of this book is to provide a good theoretical basis for micro-and nano-optical structures.”  (Optics & Photonics News, 1 September 2013)

• How to Study This Textbook VPreface XVList of Symbols XVIIAcknowledgment XXIII1 Preliminaries 12 Light Propagation 193 Light as Carrier of Information and Energy 474 Light Propagation in Free Space 695 Refractive and Reflective Microoptics 1156 Diffractive Microoptics 1377 Micro-and Nanofabrication 1738 Tunable Microoptics 2079 Compound and Integrated Free-Space Optics 22510 Light Propagation in Waveguides 24911 Integrated Waveguide Optics 28912 Plasmonics 32513 Photonic Crystals 35514 Left-Handed Materials 385Index 423

Jürgen Jahns is Professor for Optical Information Technology at the University of Hagen. His fields of activity in micro- and nanooptics are systems integration, diffractive optics, optical computing, and sensorics. Before entering the academic career he spent almost a decade in industrial research at Siemens AG, München and AT&T Bell Labs, NJ (now Alcatel Lucent). He is author of several books on Microoptics and Advisory Editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of Korea.Stefan Helfert is Adjunct Professor for Electrical Engineering at the University of Hagen. He dedicates his activities to the development of optical wave guides, microoptical components and integrated optics.

“The aim of this book is to provide a good theoretical basis for micro-and nano-optical structures.”  (Optics & Photonics News, 1 September 2013)

• How to Study This Textbook VPreface XVList of Symbols XVIIAcknowledgment XXIII1 Preliminaries 12 Light Propagation 193 Light as Carrier of Information and Energy 474 Light Propagation in Free Space 695 Refractive and Reflective Microoptics 1156 Diffractive Microoptics 1377 Micro-and Nanofabrication 1738 Tunable Microoptics 2079 Compound and Integrated Free-Space Optics 22510 Light Propagation in Waveguides 24911 Integrated Waveguide Optics 28912 Plasmonics 32513 Photonic Crystals 35514 Left-Handed Materials 385Index 423

Jürgen Jahns is Professor for Optical Information Technology at the University of Hagen. His fields of activity in micro- and nanooptics are systems integration, diffractive optics, optical computing, and sensorics. Before entering the academic career he spent almost a decade in industrial research at Siemens AG, München and AT&T Bell Labs, NJ (now Alcatel Lucent). He is author of several books on Microoptics and Advisory Editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of Korea.Stefan Helfert is Adjunct Professor for Electrical Engineering at the University of Hagen. He dedicates his activities to the development of optical wave guides, microoptical components and integrated optics.

“The aim of this book is to provide a good theoretical basis for micro-and nano-optical structures.”  (Optics & Photonics News, 1 September 2013)

• How to Study This Textbook VPreface XVList of Symbols XVIIAcknowledgment XXIII1 Preliminaries 12 Light Propagation 193 Light as Carrier of Information and Energy 474 Light Propagation in Free Space 695 Refractive and Reflective Microoptics 1156 Diffractive Microoptics 1377 Micro-and Nanofabrication 1738 Tunable Microoptics 2079 Compound and Integrated Free-Space Optics 22510 Light Propagation in Waveguides 24911 Integrated Waveguide Optics 28912 Plasmonics 32513 Photonic Crystals 35514 Left-Handed Materials 385Index 423