Description
The combination of laser and optoelectronics with optical fiber technology can enhance the seamless activities of fiber-optic communications and fiber-sensor arena. This book discusses foundations of laser technology, non-linear optics, laser and fiber-optic applications in telecommunication and sensing fields including fundamentals and recent developments in photonics technology. Accumulated chapters cover constituent materials, techniques of measurement of non-linear optical properties of nanomaterials, photonic crystals and pertinent applications in medical, high voltage engineering and, in optical computations and designing logic gates.
Table of Contents
1. Historical Facts towards Introduction to Fiber-Optics and Photonics 2. Photonics: A Dream of Modern Technology 3.Optical Fiber and Its Application In Communication - An Overview 4. Progress on Optical Fiber Sensor for the Measurement of Physical Parameters and Chemical Sensing 5.Laser Applications in Medicine and Photodynamic Therapy 6.Attempts to Build Light Energy Conversion Devices 7.Fluorescence: Fundamental and Applications 8. Nonlinear Frequency Conversion - A Versatile Approach to Achieve Broadly Tunable Coherent Radiation 9.Photonics and Its Application in High Voltage Engineering 10.Techniques of Measurements of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Layered Nanomaterials for Applications in Photonics 11.Tio2 Nanowire-Based Optical Sensor 12.Computation of Electromagnetic Bandgap in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal
