Applied Nanophotonics

With full color throughout, this unique text provides an accessible yet rigorous introduction to the basic principles, technology, and applications of nanophotonics. It explains key physical concepts such as quantum confinement in semiconductors, light confinement in metal and dielectric nanostructures, and wave coupling in nanostructures, and describes how they can be applied in lighting sources, lasers, photonic circuitry, and photovoltaic systems. Readers will gain an intuitive insight into the commercial implementation of nanophotonic components, in both current and potential future devices, as well as challenges facing the field. The fundamentals of semiconductor optics, optical material properties, and light propagation are included, and new and emerging fields such as colloidal photonics, Si-based photonics, nanoplasmonics, and bioinspired photonics are all discussed. This is the 'go-to' guide for graduate students and researchers in electrical engineering who are interested in nanophotonics, and students taking nanophotonics courses.

1. Introduction; Part I. Basics: 2. Electrons in potential wells and in solids; 3. Quantum confinement effects in semiconductors; 4. Light waves in restricted geometries; 5. Spontaneous emission of photons and lifetime engineering; 6. Stimulated emission and lasing; 7. Energy transfer processes; Part II. Advances and Challenges: 8. Lighting with nanostructures; 9. Lasers; 10. Photonic circuitry; 11. Photovoltaics; 12. Emerging nanophotonics.

Sergey V. Gaponenko is a professor and Head of the Laboratory of Nano-optics at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. He is also the author of Introduction to Nanophotonics (Cambridge, 2010) and Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanocrystals (Cambridge, 1999).
Hilmi Volkan Demir is a professor at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a founder and director of the University's Luminous! Centre of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays.