
Microcavities
Oxford University Press
Published on 28. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
488 pages
978-0-19-960227-8 (ISBN)
Description
Rapid development of microfabrication and assembly of nanostructures has opened up many opportunities to miniaturize structures that confine light, producing unusual and extremely interesting optical properties. This book addresses the large variety of optical phenomena taking place in confined solid state structures: microcavities. Realisations include planar and pillar microcavities, whispering gallery modes, and photonic crystals. The microcavities represent a unique laboratory for quantum optics and photonics. They exhibit a number of beautiful effects including lasing, superfluidity, superradiance, entanglement etc. Written by four practitioners strongly involved in experiments and theories of microcavities, it is addressed to any interested reader having a general physical background, but in particular to undergraduate and graduate students at physics faculties.
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This book, part of the Series on Semiconductor Science and Technology, is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students in physics as well as readers with a general physics background. All such readers will benefit greatly from this volume. Students, in particular, will appreciate the short biographical sketches of the giants of physics on whose shoulders the present generation of physicists stand ... Mastering this volume will ensure that the reader is able to fully appreciate the significance of continuing research in microcavities and their applications. * Alan Shore, Optics & Photonics News * Starting with the basic physics of microcavities, quantum optics, and excitons, the reader is quickly led to the cutting edge of present-day research in a friendly, tutorial style. The book includes biographical sketches of the key personalities, together with a number of amusing cartoons to illustrate the physics, both of which add considerably to its appeal. * Contemporary Physics *More details
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Language
English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Students and researchers in physics, engineering, and opto-electronics.
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98 line drawings and 63 b/w halftones
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
860 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-960227-8 (9780199602278)
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Persons
Alexey Kavokin, Chair of Nanophysics and Photonics at the University of Southampton and Chair of Excellence at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Jeremy J. Baumberg, Head of the Quantum Light and Matter group at the Physics and Astronomy School of the Southampton University, Guillaume Malpuech, CNRS Researcher, Head of Group at the Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France, and Fabrice P. Laussy, Department of Theoretical Physics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Author
, Chair of Nanophysics and Photonics at the University of Southampton and Chair of Excellence at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
, Head of the Quantum Light and Matter group at the Physics and Astronomy School of the Southampton University
, CNRS Researcher, Head of Group at the Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France
, Department of Theoretical Physics, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Content
1. Overview of microcavities ; 2. Classical description of light ; 3. Quantum description of light ; 4. Semi-classical description of light-matter coupling ; 5. Quantum description of light-matter coupling in semiconductors ; 6. Weak-coupling microcavities ; 7. Strong coupling: resonant effects ; 8. Strong coupling: polariton Bose condensation ; 9. Spin and polarisation ; Appendices ; Index