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Confined Photon Systems : Fundamentals and Applications / edited by Henri Benisty, Jean-Michel Gerard, Romuald Houdre, John Rarity, Claude Weisbuch.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Lecture Notes in Physics, 0075-8450 ; 531
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lasers.
- Photonics.
- Quantum optics.
- Optical materials.
- Electronics--Materials.
- Electronics.
- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.
- Quantum Optics.
- Optical and Electronic Materials.
- Local Subjects:
- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.
- Quantum Optics.
- Optical and Electronic Materials.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (X, 502 p. 169 illus.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 1999.
- Other Title:
- Lectures from the Summerschool Held in Cargese, Corsica, 3-15 August 1998
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Confined photon system such as microcavities and photonic crystals are currently of great interest, both in terms of fundamental physics and as a result of potential applications. They enable the study of low-dimensional photonic systems, modified light-matter interaction, e.g. between excitons and photons in all-solid-state semiconductor microcavities, and of many phenomena of quantum optics, including single photon generation, squeezed light, quantum state entanglement, non-local quantum measurements, and, potentially, quantum computation. They are also on the verge of yielding new, high performance optical devices for large-scale industries such as telecommunications and display technology. The lectures in this book are organized in a didactic fashion, with a group of in-depth introductory lectures followed by more specialist contributions detailing particular applications of confined photon systems.
- Contents:
- Basics of quantum optics and cavity quantum electrodynamics
- Basics of dipole emission from a planar cavity
- Microscopic theory of the optical semiconductor response near the fundamental absorption edge
- An introduction to photonic crystals
- Linear optical properties of semiconductor microcavities with embedded quantum wells
- Spontaneous emission control and microcavity light emitters
- Cavity QED — where’s the Q?
- Quantum optics in semiconductors
- Semiconductor microcavities, quantum boxes and the Purcell effect
- Single photon sources and applications
- Photonic crystals for nonlinear optical frequency conversion
- Physics of light extraction efficiency in planar microcavity light-emitting diodes
- Measuring the optical properties of two-dimensional photonic crystals in the near infrared
- Limitations to optical communications
- Thoughts on quantum computation.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 3-540-48313-6
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