Description: This text will help students, engineers, and scientists entering the field to become familiar with the interrelated aspects of complex photonic media.
Edited by: Noginov, Mikhail A.; Dewar, Graeme; McCall, Martin W.; Zheludev, Nikolay I.
Knovel Release Date:
Dec 8, 2010
Knovel Subject Area(s):
Electronics & Semiconductors
Optics & Photonics
Description:
The field of complex photonic media encompasses many leading-edge areas in physics, chemistry, nanotechnology, materials science, and engineering. In this book, leading experts have brought together 19 tutorials on breakthroughs in modern optics, such as negative refraction, chiral media, plasmonics, photonic crystals, and organic photonics. This text will help students, engineers, and scientists entering the field to become familiar with the interrelated aspects of complex photonic media. It also serves well as a supplemental text in introductory and advanced courses on optical materials, nanotechnology, physical optics, or photonic metamaterials.