Miniaturization and mass replications have begun to lead the
optical industry in the transition from traditional analog to novel
digital optics. As digital optics enter the realm of mainstream
technology through the worldwide sale of consumer electronic
devices, this timely book aims to present the topic of digital
optics in a unified way. Ranging from micro-optics to
nanophotonics, and design to fabrication through to integration in
final products, it reviews the various physical implementations of
digital optics in either micro-refractives, waveguide (planar
lightwave chips), diffractive and hybrid optics or sub-wavelength
structures (resonant gratings, surface plasmons, photonic crystals
and metamaterials). Finally, it presents a comprehensive list of
industrial and commercial applications that are taking advantage of
the unique properties of digital optics.
Applied Digital Optics is aimed primarily at optical
engineers and product development and technical marketing managers;
it is also of interest to graduate-level photonics students and
micro-optic foundries.
* Helps optical engineers review and choose the appropriate
software tools to design, model and generate fabrication
files.
* Gives product managers access to an exhaustive list of
applications available in today's market for integrating such
digital optics, as well as where the next potential application of
digital optics might be.
* Provides a broad view for technical marketing managers in all
aspects of digital optics, and how such optics can be
classified.
* Explains the numerical implementation of optical design and
modelling techniques.
* Enables micro-optics foundries to integrate the latest
fabrication and replication techniques, and accordingly fine tune
their own fabrication processes.
Autorentext
Bernard Kress has been involved in the field of digital optics since the late 1980s. He is an associate professor at the University of Strasbourg, France, teaching digital optics. For the last 15 years Dr Kress has been developing technologies and products related to digital optics. He has been working with established industries around the world and with start-ups in the Silicon Valley, California, with applications ranging from optical data storage, optical telecom, military and homeland security applications, LED and laser displays, industrial and medical sensors, biotechnology systems, optical security devices, high power laser material processing, to consumer electronics. He is on the advisory boards of various photonics companies in the US and has also been advising venture capital firms in the Silicon Valley for due diligence reviews in photonics, especially in micro- and nano-optics.
He holds more than 25 patents based on digital optics technology and applications, and is the author of more than 100 papers on this subject. He has taught several short courses given at SPIE conferences. His first book on digital optics, Digital Diffractive Optics (2000), was published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and has been translated into Japanese in 2005 (published by Wiley-Maruzen). He is also the author of a chapter in the best seller Optical System Design (2007), edited by R. Fisher and published by McGraw-Hill. Bernard Kress can be contacted at bernard@applieddigitaloptics.com.
Patrick Meyrueis is full professor at the University of Strasbourg since 1986 (formerly Louis Pasteur University). He is the founder of the Photonics Systems Laboratory which is now one of the most advanced labs in the field of planar digital optics. He is the author of more than 200 publications and was the chairman of more than 20 international conferences in photonics. He was the representative of the Rhenaphotonics cluster and one of the founders of the CNOP in 2001 (national French committee of optics and photonics). He is now acting as the scientific director of the Photonics Systems Lab and the head of the PhD and undergraduate program in the ENSPS National School of Physics in Strasbourg.
Klappentext
Miniaturization and mass replications have begun to lead the optical industry in the transition from traditional analog to novel digital optics. As digital optics enter the realm of mainstream technology through the worldwide sale of consumer electronic devices, this timely book aims to present the topic of digital optics in a unified way. Ranging from micro-optics to nanophotonics, and design to fabrication through to integration in final products, it reviews the various physical implementations of digital optics in either micro-refractives, waveguide (planar lightwave chips), diffractive and hybrid optics or sub-wavelength structures (resonant gratings, surface plasmons, photonic crystals and metamaterials). Finally, it presents a comprehensive list of industrial and commercial applications that are taking advantage of the unique properties of digital optics.
- Helps optical engineers review and choose the appropriate software tools to design, model and generate fabrication files.
- Gives product managers access to an exhaustive list of applications available in today's market for integrating such digital optics, as well as where the next potential application of digital optics might be.
- Provides a broad view for technical marketing managers in all aspects of digital optics, and how such optics can be classified.
- Explains the numerical implementation of optical design and modelling techniques.
- Enables micro-optics foundries to integrate the latest fabrication and replication techniques, and accordingly fine tune their own fabrication processes.
- Supplementary book material is available at www.applieddigitaloptics.com
Applied Digital Optics is aimed primarily at optical engineers and product development and technical marketing managers; it is also of interest to graduate-level photonics students and micro-optic foundries.
Inhalt
About the Authors.
Foreword by Professor Joseph Goodman.
Foreword by Professor Trevor Hall.
Acknowledgments.
Acronyms.
Introduction.
Why a Book on Digital Optics?
Digital versus Analog.
What are Digital Optics?
The Realm of Digital Optics.
1 From Refraction to Diffraction.
1.1 Refraction and Diffraction Phenomena.
1.2 Understanding the Diffraction Phenomenon.
1.3 No More Parasitic Effects.
1.4 From Refractive Optics to Diffractive Optics.
1.5 From Diffractive Optics to Digital Optics.
1.6 Are Diffractives and Refractives Interchangeable Elements?
2 Classification of Digital Optics
2.1 Early Digital Optics.
2.2 Guided-wave Digital Optics.
2.3 Free-space Digital Optics.
2.4 Hybrid Digital Optics.
3 Guided-wave Digital Optics
3.1 From Optical Fibers to Planar Lightwave Circuits (PLCs).
3.2 Light Propagation in Waveguides.
3.3 The Optical Fiber.
3.4 The Dielectric Slab Waveguide.
3.5 Channel Waveguides.
3.6 PLC In- and Out-coupling.
3.7 Functionality Integration.
4 Refractive Micro-optics
4.1 Micro-optics in Nature.
4.2 GRIN Lenses.
4.3 Surface-relief Micro-optics.
4.4 Micro-optics Arrays.
5 Digital Diffractive Optics: Analytic Type.
5.1 Analytic and Numeric Digital Diffractives.
5.2 The Notion of Diffraction Orders.
5.3 Diffraction Gratings.
5.4 Diffractive Optical Elements.
5.5 Diffractive Interferogram Lenses.
6 Digital Diffractive Optics: Numeric Type.
6.1 Computer-generated Holograms.
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