商品簡介
The electron will one day make way for the photon, and researchers are struggling to find the materials, topologies, and fabrication technologies at optimum speed and minimum cost. The authors, all practitioners, describe the historical perspective behind the technology, including photonic computing, photonic-band-gap structures and quantum photonics, technology growth and the market push, fundamentals of interactions of light with matter, the photonic node, transmitters, couplers and switches, multiplexers, receivers, amplifiers and compensators, new technologies, materials, fabrication and integration, advanced microphotonic devices, quantum photonic systems and future systems and their applications. Illustrations are clear and helpful and the authors include references for further reading. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
