Photonic Signals and Systems: An Introduction

Foreword

This book addresses the new discipline of “photonic engineering,” which refers to the engineering of photonic devices, subsystems, and systems—even system-on-a-chip. Photonic engineering has already played a major role in developing optical network “nodes” within the globally deployed long-haul and short-reach fiber-optic communications networks that benefit our everyday lives. This engineering is likely to be the backbone of applications in microwave photonics, sensing, and imaging that are coming on-stream now. As a photonics researcher, I find that photonics is a rich and diversified field with “open frontiers.” There are new phenomena to be discovered, new inventions to be made, and new uses to be found in medicine, energy, the environment, ...