Silicon Nanophotonics ─ Basic Principles, Present Status, and Perspectives

Photonics is a key technology of this century. The combination of photonics and Si technology is of great importance due to the potentiality of coupling electronics and optical functions on a single chip. This book describes different aspects of Silicon Nanophotonics, from fundamental issues to practical devices. The 2nd edition is essentially different from the book published in 2008. Eight chapters of the 1st edition are not included in the new edition because the recent progress on those topics has not been large enough. Instead, seven new topics appear, which describe recent achievements in the field.

Leonid Khriachtchev graduated from the Leningrad State University, Russia, in 1981. He completed his PhD in quantum electronics in 1986 and became a senior scientist and group leader in 1988 in the Institute of Physics at the same university. At that time, his research dealt with resonant light pressure and optical pumping of the ground state of atoms in the gas phase. In 1994, he joined the University of Helsinki, Finland, and he is currently a senior scientist in the Department of Chemistry at this university. His scientific activities are focused on experimental spectroscopy of various molecular species and nanoscale materials. He has contributed to the construction of new chemical systems at low temperatures, including noble-gas compounds and high-energy conformers. Silicon-based photonics has been another important part of his research activity. He is the editor of Silicon Nanophotonics: Basic Principles, Present Status, and Perspectives (Pan Stanford Publishing, 2008) and Physics and Chemistry at Low Temperatures (Pan Stanford Publishing, 2011). He is also the author of over 240 refereed articles.