Table of Contents

1.: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
2.: Rays and Optical Beams
3.: Dielectric Waveguides and Optical Fibers
4.: Optical Resonators
5.: Interaction of Radiation and Atomic Systems
6.: Theory of Laser Oscillation and Some Specific Laser Systems
7.: Chromatic Dispersion and Polarization Mode Dispersion in Fibers
8.: Nonlinear Optics
9.: Electro-Optics and AO modulators
10.: Noise in Optical Detection and Generation
11.: Detection of Optical Radiation
12.: Periodic Structures
13.: Waveguide Coupling
14.: Nonlinear Optical Effects in Fibers
15.: Semiconductor Lasers
16.: Advanced Semiconductor Lasers
17.: Optical Amplifiers
18.: Classical Treatment of Quantum Optics, Quantum Noise, and Squeezing
Appendixes:
A. Wave Equation in Cylindrical Coordinates and Bessel Functions
B. Exact Solutions of the Step-Index Circular Waveguide
C. Kramers-Kronig Relations
D. Transformation of a Coherent Electromagnetic Field by a Thin Lens
E. Fermi Level and its Temperature Dependence
F. Electro-optic Effect in Cubic 43m Crystals
G. Conversion for Power Units and Attenuation Units

About the Author

Amnon Yariv is Martin and Eileen Summerfeld Professor of Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology.

Pochi Yeh is Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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