Introduction to Micro- and Nanooptics

Jürgen Jahns is Professor for Optical Information Technology at the University of Hagen. His fields of activity in micro- and nanooptics are systems integration, diffractive optics, optical computing, and sensorics. Before entering the academic career he spent almost a decade in industrial research at Siemens AG, München and AT&T Bell Labs, NJ (now Alcatel Lucent). He is author of several books on Microoptics and Advisory Editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of Korea. Stefan Helfert is Adjunct Professor for Electrical Engineering at the University of Hagen. He dedicates his activities to the development of optical wave guides, microoptical components and integrated optics.

• 1 Preliminaries2 Light propagation3 Light as carrier of information and energy4 Light propagation in free space5 Refractive and reflective microoptics6 Diffractive microoptics7 Micro- and nano-fabrication8 Tunable microoptics9 Compound and integrated free-space optics10 Light propagation in waveguides11 Integrated waveguide optics12 Surface plasmon waveguides11 Photonic crystals12 Left-handed materials

“The aim of this book is to provide a good theoretical basis for micro-and nano-optical structures.”  (Optics & Photonics News, 1 September 2013)