Applied Digital Optics: From Micro-optics to Nanophotonics

Contents

About the Authors

Foreword by Professor Joseph Goodman

Foreword by Professor Trevor Hall

Acknowledgments

Acronyms

Introduction

Why a Book on Digital Optics?

Digital versus Analog

What are Digital Optics?

The Realm of Digital Optics

Supplementary Material

1 From Refraction to Diffraction

1.1 Refraction and Diffraction Phenomena

1.2 Understanding the Diffraction Phenomenon

1.3 No More Parasitic Effects

1.4 From Refractive Optics to Diffractive Optics

1.5 From Diffractive Optics to Digital Optics

1.6 Are Diffractives and Refractives Interchangeable Elements?

2 Classification of Digital Optics

2.1 Early Digital Optics

2.2 Guided-wave Digital Optics

2.3 Free-space Digital Optics

2.4 Hybrid Digital Optics

3 Guided-wave Digital Optics

3.1 From Optical Fibers to Planar Lightwave Circuits (PLCs)

3.2 Light Propagation in Waveguides

3.3 The Optical Fiber

3.4 The Dielectric Slab Waveguide

3.5 Channel Waveguides

3.6 PLC In- and Out-coupling

3.7 Functionality Integration

4 Refractive Micro-optics

4.1 Micro-optics in Nature

4.2 GRIN Lenses

4.3 Surface-relief Micro-optics

4.4 Micro-optics Arrays

5 Digital Diffractive Optics: Analytic Type

5.1 Analytic and Numeric Digital Diffractives

5.2 The Notion of Diffraction Orders

5.3 Diffraction Gratings

5.4 Diffractive Optical Elements

5.5 Diffractive Interferogram Lenses

6 Digital Diffractive Optics: Numeric Type

6.1 Computer-generated Holograms

6.2 Designing CGHs

6.3 Multiplexing CGHs

6.4 Various CGH Functionality Implementations

7 Hybrid Digital ...