Fundamentals of Micro-Optics

Hans Zappe is Professor of Micro-Optics in the Department of Microsystems Engineering at University of Freiburg, where he also manages the Laboratory for Micro-Optics in the Department of Microsystems Engineering. He has 20 years' experience working on optical micro- and nanosystems, integrated optics, and semiconductor lasers, and he is internationally renowned for his teaching and research. He has previously authored two textbooks and his current research interests include the use of micro-optics for medical applications and the development of tunable micro-optical components and systems.

• 1. Introduction; 2. The physics of light; 3. Optical materials; 4. Optical interfaces; 5. Interferometry; 6. Reflective micro-optics; 7. Refractive micro-optics; 8. Diffractive micro-optics; 9. Guided-wave micro-optics; 10. Active micro-optics; 11. Micro-optical fabrication; 12. Tunable micro-optics; 13. Fluidic micro-optics; 14. Nano-optics.

"... provides an in-depth description of micro-optic devices, technologies and applications, as well as new and advanced topics such as tunable micro-optics, fluidic micro-optics and nano-optics. The book is very clearly written and only uses mathematics when absolutely necessary." Darko Vasiljevic, Optics and Photonics News