Introduction to Biophotonics

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Paras Prasad’s text provides a basic knowledge of a broad range of topics so that individuals in all disciplines can rapidly acquire the minimal necessary background for research and development in biophotonics. Introduction to Biophotonics serves as both a textbook for education and training as well as a reference book that aids research and development of those areas integrating light, photonics, and biological systems. Each chapter contains a topic introduction, a review of key data, and description of future directions for technical innovation. Introduction to Biophotonics covers the basic principles of

Optics
Optical spectroscopy
Microscopy

Each section also includes illustrated examples and review questions to test and advance the reader’s knowledge. Sections on biosensors and chemosensors, important tools for combating biological and chemical terrorism, will be of particular interest to professionals in toxicology and other environmental disciplines. Introduction to Biophotonics proves a valuable reference for graduate students and researchers in engineering, chemistry, and the life sciences.

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Optics
Optical spectroscopy
Microscopy

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For research only.......2006-04-18

If you are going for PhD, then read this book.

But, if you are planning on getting a job in the industry, then forget this book. Study Analog and Digital design, VLSI, C.

Very superficial coverage, and my book is missing sections.......2006-01-18

When I recieved the book, everything seemed to be in order, and it was only when I tried to read chapter 4 (Fundamentals of Light-Matter Interaction, which some might argue, is quite important) that I discovered, this valuable chapter had been replaced by incoherent babble about statistical methods and linear algebra, that did not match the table of contents. Furthermore, it didn't have anything to do with biology, or photonics. I don't know if all of the books contain this misprint, but I wouldn't buy it from Amazon (at least check it when you get it so that you can return it if your's is screwed up!)
Furthermore, the book has many interesting topics, but each is covered in a very superficial way. Mathematical models are avoided almost totally, and the ocassional equations have no derivation. This could be a plus for some, but I feel like this book would not help anyone solve actually engineering problems in biophotonics. It was merely a collection of interesting summaries.

Biological Sciences Graduate Student.......2004-06-18

Like many introduction to optics books published by Wiley, this book is well organized and gives an excellent overview with some good illustrations (terrible representation of Optical Coherence Tomography). It is a good overview of many areas like bioimaging and biosensors. As a biological science graduate student, I found the few formulas easy to understand. FRET and FLIM should have been developed better. The web references are convenient.
I definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting to have a good overview on different biological optical applications.

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a glittering future?

Silicon Photonics: An Introduction
Graham T. Reed , and Andrew P. Knights
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ASIN: 0470870346

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The growing demand for instant and reliable communication means that photonic circuits are increasingly finding applications in optical communications systems. One of the prime candidates to provide satisfactory performance at low cost in the photonic circuit is silicon. Whilst silicon photonics is less well developed as compared to some other material technologies, it is poised to make a serious impact on the telecommunications industry, as well as in many other applications, as other technologies fail to meet the yield/performance/cost trade-offs. Following a sympathetic tutorial approach, this first book on silicon photonics provides a comprehensive overview of the technology. Silicon Photonics explains the concepts of the technology, taking the reader through the introductory principles, on to more complex building blocks of the optical circuit. Starting with the basics of waveguides and the properties peculiar to silicon, the book also features:

Key design issues in optical circuits.
Experimental methods.
Evaluation techniques.
Operation of waveguide based devices.
Fabrication of silicon waveguide circuits.
Evaluation of silicon photonic systems.
Numerous worked examples, models and case studies.

Silicon Photonics is an essential tool for photonics engineers and young professionals working in the optical network, optical communications and semiconductor industries. This book is also an invaluable reference and a potential main text to senior undergraduates and postgraduate students studying fibre optics, integrated optics, or optical network technology.

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Key design issues in optical circuits.
Experimental methods.
Evaluation techniques.
Operation of waveguide based devices.
Fabrication of silicon waveguide circuits.
Evaluation of silicon photonic systems.
Numerous worked examples, models and case studies.

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a glittering future?.......2005-04-11

The impetus for the book comes from the ever increasing demand for cheaper bandwidth. The aim is to be able to fabricate semiconductor hardware, implemented in silicon, rather than gallium arsenide, that can interface with an optical fiber. Ideally, this can then take advantage of the massive existing silicon fab infrastructure, both in hardware and expertise.

The book goes into huge detail about the current state of technology needed to try to make this happen. Attention is paid to how to actually make the devices on various configurations, especially silicon on insulator. This has emerged as a very promising avenue for further work. You get practical details on the photolithography and etching. Plus other sundry but essential topics as doping and how to make submicron waveguides.

Though when reading over this information, perhaps one cannot help wondering how much proprietary arcana has been withheld. The secret recipes that the companies in this field hold dear.

Ultimately, the hope of the book is to encourage students and researchers to enter this field and contribute to it.

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Photonics and Lasers: An Introduction
Richard S. Quimby
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Fundamentals of Photonics (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics)

ASIN: 0471719749

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An introduction to photonics and lasers that does not rely on complex mathematics

This book evolved from a series of courses developed by the author and taught in the areas of lasers and photonics. This thoroughly classroom-tested work fills a unique need for students, instructors, and industry professionals in search of an introductory-level book that covers a wide range of topics in these areas. Comparable books tend to be aimed either too high or too low, or they cover only a portion of the topics that are needed for a comprehensive treatment.

Photonics and Lasers is divided into four parts:
* Propagation of Light
* Generation and Detection of Light
* Laser Light
* Light-Based Communication

The author has ensured that complex mathematics does not become an obstacle to understanding key physical concepts. Physical arguments and explanations are clearly set forth while, at the same time, sufficient mathematical detail is provided for a quantitative understanding. As an additional aid to readers who are learning to think symbolically, some equations are expressed in words as well as symbols.

Problem sets are provided throughout the book for readers to test their knowledge and grasp of key concepts. A solutions manual is also available for instructors. Finally, the detailed bibliography leads readers to in-depth explorations of particular topics.

The book's topics, lasers and photonics, are often treated separately in other texts; however, the author skillfully demonstrates their natural synergy. Because of the combined coverage, this text can be used for a two-semester course or a one-semester course emphasizing either lasers or photonics. This is a perfect introductory textbook for both undergraduate and graduate students, additionally serving as a practical reference for engineers in telecommunications, optics, and laser electronics.

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Very Useful Resource!.......2006-05-03

I took a Photonics course with Professor Quimby when he was in the process of writing this book, and I studied several textbooks on the subject during the course. His book was the most useful, it made the rather complicated subject of Photonics more comprehensible than any other text. Great chapter on the several different types of photo detectors and lasers, also great introduction to fiber optic communications!

Optical Near Fields: Introduction to Classical and Quantum Theories of Electromagnetic Phenomena at the Nanoscale (Advanced Texts in Physics)

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Optical Near Fields: Introduction to Classical and Quantum Theories of Electromagnetic Phenomena at the Nanoscale (Advanced Texts in Physics)
M. Ohtsu , and K. Kobayashi
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ASIN: 354040483X

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Using the thin film of light, the optical near field, that is localized on the surface of a nanometric material has removed the diffraction limit as a barrier to imaging on the nano- and atomic scales. But a paradigm shift in the concepts of optics and optical technology is required to understand the instrinsic nature of the near fields and how best to exploit them. Professors Ohstu and Kobayashi crafted Optical Near Fields on the basis of their hypothesis that the full potential for utilizing optical near fields can be realized only with novel nanometric processing, functions, and manipulation, i.e., by controlling the intrinsic interaction between nanometer-sized optical near fields and material systems, and further, atoms. The book presents physically intuitive concepts and theories for students, engineers, and scientists engaged in research in nanophotonics and atom photonics.

Photonics Essentials : An Introduction with Experiments

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The experimenter's view
A great book for learning Photonics

Photonics Essentials : An Introduction with Experiments
Thomas P. Pearsall
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The experimenter's view.......2004-01-30

Photonics Essentials is a refreshingly different Photonics Textbook. It is clearly aimed at an undergraduate audience, although specialist readers may also find it useful, either to brush up on a topic or to have it explained in a clear, conceptual way, and from a different angle. This approach does not aim to replace conventional textbooks, but rather complements them with experimentally-motivated examples. Arguments are usually introduced via clearly understandable models and examples, and the light tone makes the subject more accessible. This, however, does not make the book superficial, the author instead focusses on the most relevant aspects and then backs them up with mathematical rigour.
Another difference to existing literature is that it provides interesting insights into industral reality, and sometimes quotes price as one of the parameters to enter the engineering equation. This provides a worthwhile reality-check, yet also some built-in obsolence. The book encourages the student to develop new thinking and not to be put off by accepted "impossibilities", e.g in the discussion on GaN lasers. The characterisation section provides a useful background on the electrical properties of photonic devices, information that is not necessarily provided in photonics textbooks. The same applies to the explanation of the operation principle and practical use of lock-in amplifiers. Furthermore, showing "real" experimental measurement curves provides useful reference material for laboratory experiments.
Overall, the book is clearly aimed at undergraduate students and engineers interested in understanding fundamental principles rather than scientists involved in cutting-edge research. With this scope in mind, it serves a worthwhile function and has identified a gap in the existing market that it fills with excellence.

A great book for learning Photonics.......2003-12-08

¡§Photonics Essentials: An introduction with experiments¡¨ by Tom Pearsall is a great book. Both students and working professionals in the field of photonics/optoelectronics will find the book useful.

When I was a student of photonics, one of the difficulties was finding books that clearly explain the physics (not the math for deriving those equations) of photonic devices. To understand the physics of photonics devices, one typically needs to understand the band structure of semiconductor materials, current-voltage and capacitance-voltage characteristics of p-n junction diodes, and some simple concepts in optics. There has been no book that covers all these topics in an easy to understand fashion in one volume. Furthermore, books in photonics typically explain the theory but don¡¦t teach you how to verify the theory. ¡§Photonics Essensials¡¨ by Tom Pearsall covers all the essential concepts and shows you how to verify the theory through experiments. Marvelous!

The book starts by teaching the concept of the band structure of semiconductors. This was done in less than 30 pages in an easy to understand manner. The book then went on to discuss the physics (not the math) of photodiodes, photoconductors, light-emitting diodes, lasers and optical fibers. Every chapter explains how each device works through a discussion of the basic processes that happen in the device. Strategy and tricks on how to engineer the devices to make them better are also discussed. In the last two chapters, Tom discusses how to experimentally measure the basic characteristics of photonic devices covered in earlier chapters.

This book doesn¡¦t hide behind the equations and theories. It teaches you the real thing and also shows you how to verify what you learned through experiments. This doesn¡¦t mean that the author doesn¡¦t understand the theory. Tom Pearsall, is fellow of both the IEEE and the American Physical Society. If you have met this guy and read his research papers, you know that he knows his theories. Tom, however, is also the inventor of InGaAsP photodetectors that we use for long distance telecom. He knows how to translate understanding of the theory into real devices. He also understands how one can be fooled by theory (read his story on the development of GaN blue lasers in chapter 7). It is great that someone like Tom finally wrote this book.

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This new book presents an introduction to the essential elements of optics and photonics. Optics as a subject, has evolved dramatically in recent years, and is now an essential part of many science and engineering disciplines as well as being commonly found throughout everyday life.

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Horrible.......2006-02-08

This is quite possibly the worst physics textbook I have ever read. Our professor used it for an undergraduate introductory course in optics and I have to only presume that he was just using the book for the sake of testing it out. The book is totally inadequate as an introductory textbook for optics. I don't very well know where to begin and so for the sake of mentioning just some of its failings will be forced to inevitably miss some. For starters it doesn't explain any of its equations it presents, and I mean every single one! In writing this review I began searching through the book in hopes of finding something that was clearly derived but failed. Every single derivation involves extrodinary amounts of hand waving greater than in any physics related textbook I have ever read. In short the book doesn't provide the neccessary explanations that a student knowing nothing of optics desperately needs. The other major problem with the book is that its language is very confusing. At times it will use very vague language when dealing with very simplistic points resulting in a very difficult time in picking up even the basics let alone more complicated topics. Another problem with this book is that it seems to have a problem with defining terms. Curiously enougth one would think that this would be the most simplistic of things and yet it even fails here. At times in the book you will find yourself asking yourself 'what is that?' only to realize that the authors never bothered to explain it to you earlier. Although there are numerous other problems with this text I'll mention only one more for the sake of brevity. The questions at the end of each chapter are in no way representitive of what the chapter was just discussing. Additionally, they are frequently difficult to interpret and at times are so vague that one can't tell what is even being asked.

The only person to whom I could recommend this book to would be to a future author of a physics textbook. That way they would learn how not to write a physics book.

Precursory Overview.......2005-04-24

I found this book to present a brief overview of the rather large field of Optics. Derivations of many of the equations are omitted and some rather abstract areas are not expounded upon. However as a fast reading overview of the major areas of optics this book provides a good introduction or review.

Introduction to Information Optics (Optics and Photonics)

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Introduction to Information Optics (Optics and Photonics)

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ASIN: 0127748113

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While there are books treating individual topics contained in this book, this will be the first single volume providing a cohesive treatment on this subject as a whole. This goes beyond optical communications in that it includes related topics such as sensing, displays, computing, and data storage.

Introduction to Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy (Optics and Photonics Series)

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Introduction to Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy (Optics and Photonics Series)
Marc D. Levenson , and Satoru S. Kano
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Optics and Photonics: An Introduction
F. Graham Smith , Terry A. King , and Dan Wilkins
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The Second Edition of this successful textbook provides a clear, well-written introduction to both the fundamental principles of optics and the key aspects of photonics to show how the subject has developed in the last few decades, leading to many modern applications. Optics and Photonics: An Introduction, Second Edition thus provides a complete undergraduate course on optics in a single integrated text, and is an essential resource for all undergraduate physics, science and engineering students taking a variety of optics based courses.

Specific changes for this edition include:

New material on modern optics and photonics
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Apogee Photonics and Vitesse offer breakthrough optical transmission performance for 10Gbps optical module OEMs.(Gigabytes Per Second)(Original Equipment ... An article from: Fiber Optics Weekly Update

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Apogee Photonics and Vitesse offer breakthrough optical transmission performance for 10Gbps optical module OEMs.(Gigabytes Per Second)(Original Equipment ... An article from: Fiber Optics Weekly Update

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