Microcavities (Series on Semiconductor Science and Technology) - Softcover

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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199602271 ISBN 13: 9780199602278

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2011

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Alexey Kavokin is Chair of Nanophysics and Photonics at the University of Southampton and Chair of Excellence at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". Jeremy J. Baumberg is
Head of the Quantum Light and Matter group at the Physics and Astronomy School of the Southampton University. Guillaume Malpuech is CNRS Researcher, Head of Group at the Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Fabrice P. Laussy is in the Department of Theoretcial Physics at the
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

Review:

"Starting with the basic physics of microcavities, quantum optics, and excitons, the reader is quickly led to the cutting edge of present-day research in a friendly, tutorial style. The book includes biographical sketches of the key personalities, together with a number of amusing cartoons to
illustrate the physics, both of which add considerably to its appeal."

--Contemporary Physics

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0199602271
• ISBN 13: 9780199602278
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 440