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Microoptics is still an emerging field with a huge potential for a large number of applications. This monograph brings together the most recent developments in order to give a broad overview.

Microoptics is still an emerging field with a huge potential for a large number of applications. This monograph brings together the most recent developments in order to give a broad overview.

Microoptics is still an emerging field with a huge potential for a large number of applications. This monograph brings together the most recent developments in order to give a broad overview.

Optical Computing Hardware provides information pertinent to the advances in the development of optical computing hardware. This book discusses the two application areas, namely, high-performance computing and high-throughput photonic switching. Organized into 11 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the requirements on hardware from s system perspective. This text then presents the self-electro-optic-effect devices (SPEED), the vertical-cavity-surface- emitting microlasers (VCSEL), and the vertical-to-surface transmission electrophotonic device (VSTEP). Other chapters consider the fundamental principles of the devices and their operation either as logic devices or for optical interconnection applications. This book discusses as well the planar optical microlens as an example of a refractive microlens of the gradient-index type and explains the diffractive optical elements. The final chapter describes a method for writing and reading optically in parallel from a three-dimensional matrix by means of two-photon interaction in photochromic organic materials. This book is a valuable resource for engineers, scientists, and researchers.

Die moderne Datenverarbeitung verlangt nach immer größeren Speichermedien und schnelleren Übertragungsraten. Optische Systeme, wie sie zum Beispiel die CD-Technologie oder die Glasfaser darstellen, bieten in vielen Fällen die leistungsfähigeren und billigeren Lösungen. Das vorliegende Buch bietet einen Einstieg in die spannende Technologie der Photonik. Nach der Behandlung der Grundlagen der Lichtausbreitung (Brechung, Beugung, Streuung, Polarisation, ...) wird die Physik passiver und aktiver Bauelemente erläutert. Schließlich werden Systemanwendungen in der Informationstechnik wie Glasfaserübertragung, optische Netze, CD-Technologie und Holographie vorgestellt.

This first textbook on both micro- and nanooptics introduces readers to the technological development, physical background and key areas.The opening chapters on the physics of light are complemented by chapters on refractive and diffractive optical elements. The internationally renowned authors present different methods of lithographic and nonlithographic fabrication of microoptics and introduce the characterization and testing of microoptics.The second part of the book is dedicated to optical microsystems and MEMS, optical waveguide structures and optical nanostructures, including photonic crystals and metamaterials. Each chapter includes exercises illustrating a sample approach to new and complex topics, making the textbook suitable for lectures on optics as part of a physics or electrical engineering course.