Microcavities (Series on Semiconductor Science and Technology) - Hardcover

Kavokin, Alexey; Baumberg, Jeremy J.; Malpuech, Guillaume; Laussy, Fabrice P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199228949 ISBN 13: 9780199228942

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Rapid development of microfabrication and assembly of nanostructures has opened up many opportunities to miniaturize structures that confine light, producing unusual and extremely interesting optical properties. Microcavities addresses the large variety of optical phenomena taking place in confined solid state structures: microcavities. Realisations include planar and pillar microcavities, whispering gallery modes, and photonic crystals. The microcavities represent a unique laboratory for quantum optics and photonics. They exhibit a number of beautiful effects including lasing, superfluidity, superradiance, entanglement etc.

Written by four practitioners strongly involved in experiments and theories of microcavities, it is addressed to any interested reader having a general physical background, but in particular to undergraduate and graduate students at physics faculties.

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About the Author

Professor Alexey Kavokin:
Chair of Nanophysics and Photonics at the University of Southampton and Chair of Excellence at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Professor Jeremy Baumberg
Head of the Quantum Light and Matter group at the Physics and Astronomy School of the Southampton University
Dr Guillaume Malpuech
CNRS researcher, head of group at the Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Dr Fabrice Laussy
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Sheffield

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199228949
• ISBN 13: 9780199228942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432