Optical Waves in Layered Media

POCHI YEH obtained his PhD in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1977 for his research on nonlinear optics and optical properties of superlattices. Before he joined the electrical and computer engineering faculty at University of California–Santa Barbara in 1989, Dr. Yeh was the principal scientist of the Optics Department at Rockwell International Science Center in Thousand Oaks, California. Dr. Yeh is known for several important contributions in optics, including the development of a matrix method for optics of layered media; the theory of photorefractive phase conjugators; and the theory of wave mixing in nonlinear media.

• Chapter 1. The Electromagnetic Field. Chapter 2. Interaction of Electromagnetic Radiation with Matter.Chapter 3. Reflection and Refraction of Plane Waves.Chapter 4. Optics of A Single Homogeneous and Isotropic Layer.Chapter 5. Matrix Formulation for Isotropic Layered Media.Chapter 6. Optics of Periodic Layered Media.Chapter 7. Some Applications of Isotropic Layered Media.Chapter 8. Inhomogeneous Layers.Chapter 9. Optics of Anisotropic Layered Media.Chapter 10. Some Applications of Anisotropic Layered Media.Chapter 11. Guided Waves in Layered Media.Chapter 12. Optics of Semiconductor Quantum Wells and Superlattice Structures.Appendix: Zeros of Mode Dispersion RElation.Author Index.Subject Index.