Jia-Ming Liu is Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Liu has published over 250 scientific papers and holds 12 US patents, and is the author of Photonic Devices (Cambridge, 2005). He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Physical Society, the IEEE, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

• Preface; Partial list of symbols; 1. Basic concepts of optical fields; 2. Optical properties of materials; 3. Optical wave propagation; 4. Optical coupling; 5. Optical interference; 6. Optical resonance; 7. Optical absorption and emission; 8. Optical amplification; 9. Laser oscillation; 10. Optical modulation; 11. Photodetection; Appendix A: symbols and notations; Appendix B: SI metric system; Appendix C: fundamental physical constants; Appendix D: Fourier-transform relations; Index.

'[Principles of Photonics] is an excellent textbook … The book would also be suitable for physics students. … The volume carries readers from the nature of optical fields and the properties of optical materials, through to principles of major photonics functions including the generation, propagation, amplification and detection of optical waves. Readers will thus gain a firm foundation for future forays into photonics devices and systems.' K. Alan Shore, Optics and Photonics News