Optical Waveguide Concepts

This book is the first volume to appear in the new series Optical Wave Sciences and Technology. It provides a comprehensive review on recent trends in optical waveguide theory. The main focus of the work is on single-mode optics, examining in turn the basic tools, the derivation of normal modes, the perturbation problems and finally the discontinuity problems. This new book series, which is open ended, is aimed at scientists working in the field of electromagnetic theory and its applications. Maxwell's equations will form the ultimate basis, either explicitly or implicitly of every book in the series.
 
This book is the first volume to appear in the new series Optical Wave Sciences and Technology. It provides a comprehensive review on recent trends in optical waveguide theory. The main focus of the work is on single-mode optics, examining in turn the basic tools, the derivation of normal modes, the perturbation problems and finally the discontinuity problems. This new book series, which is open ended, is aimed at scientists working in the field of electromagnetic theory and its applications. Maxwell's equations will form the ultimate basis, either explicitly or implicitly of every book in the series.