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On-Chip Photonics

Principles, Technology and Applications

  • 1st Edition - August 13, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Alina Karabchevsky, Amol Choudhary
  • Language: English

On-Chip Photonics: Principles, Technology and Applications reviews the advances of integrated photonic devices and their demonstrated applications. The discussed applications en… Read more

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Description

On-Chip Photonics: Principles, Technology and Applications reviews the advances of integrated photonic devices and their demonstrated applications. The discussed applications encompass a wide range of cutting-edge technologies, including quantum photonics, lasers on a chip, mid-infrared and overtone spectroscopies, all-optical processing on a chip, logic gates on a chip, and cryptography on a chip. The summaries in the book chapters facilitate an understanding of the field and enable the application of optical waveguides in a variety of optical systems. Overviews of computational tools, material platforms, and suggestions for the realization of on-chip photonic devices are also included

Key features

  • Introduces advanced concepts of passive and active on-chip photonic components
  • Discusses emerging applications of on-chip photonics, quantum technologies, computing, and more
  • Reviews materials, computational tools, and suggestions for the realization of on-chip photonic devices

Readership

Materials Scientists and Engineers

Table of contents

1. Historical Perspective of Optical Waveguides

2. Modes propagation in planar waveguides

3. Computational methods

4. Material platforms for integrated Photonics

5. Optical Logic Gates on Photonic Crystal Platform

6. Biosensors

7. On-chip frequency comb

8. On-Chip Rare-Earth-Doped Lasers

9. Nonlinear signal processing on chip

10. Nonlinear quantum optical inference: advances and on-chip perspectives

11. Integrated photonic quantum computing

12. On-chip plasmonics: Basic principles and applications

13. Magneto-optic effects in optical waveguides

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 13, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Alina Karabchevsky

Dr. Alina Karabchevsky is a full professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev and heads the Integrated Photonics Center at BGU, which explores the interaction of light and matter on a chip. She serves as Chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity group, Israel section. Dr. Karabchevsky holds a PhD in electrooptics engineering. She was the recipient of the Alma Mater President’s Award for “Outstanding Woman in Science”. She gained her postdoctoral experience at the Optoelectronics Research Center at the University of Southampton, UK. Her main research interests lay in the areas of integrated photonics and microfibers, all-dielectric photonics, plasmonics, on-chip spectroscopy, and optomechanics.

Affiliations and expertise
Ben-Gurion University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Electrooptics and Photonics, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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Amol Choudhary

Dr. Amol Choudhary is an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, and heads the UltraFast Optical Communications and High-performance Integrated Photonics (UFO-CHIP) group. He was previously an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow with the Optoelectronics Research Center at the University of Southampton, UK, and the Australian Government’s Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) fellow with the University of Sydney, Australia. He holds a PhD in optoelectronics from the University of Southampton, UK. He was the recipient of the Optica’s Ivan P. Kaminow Outstanding Early Career Professional Prize in 2018 and the Institute of Engineers India (IEI)’s Young Engineer Award (YEA) in 2020.
Affiliations and expertise
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Department of Electrical Engineering, and the Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology and Management Delhi, India

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