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Planar Waveguides and other Confined Geometries

Theory, Technology, Production, and Novel Applications

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  • Covers theoretical and practical aspects of planar waveguides and other confined geometries including optical fibers
  • Discusses applications for confined waveguides in security and life sciences, including visualization of cell structures and Raman identification of gaseous compounds
  • Written by respected experts and researchers in these specialized subjects
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences (SSOS, volume 189)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Nanoplasmonic Metal–Insulator–Metal Waveguides

    • Moshik Cohen, Reuven Shavit, Zeev Zalevsky
    Pages 45-66
  3. Femtosecond Laser Inscription of Photonic and Optofluidic Devices in Fiber Cladding

    • Jason R. Grenier, Moez Haque, Luís A. Fernandes, Kenneth K. C. Lee, Peter R. Herman
    Pages 67-110
  4. Fabrication of Channel Waveguides in Chalcogenide Glass Films by a Focused Laser Beam

    • K. Shemesh, Yu. Kaganovskii, M. Rosenbluh
    Pages 111-128
  5. Laser Processed Photonic Devices

    • Jerome Lapointe, Raman Kashyap
    Pages 129-167
  6. Advanced Coupling Technologies for Planar and Strip Waveguides

    • Thomas Fricke-Begemann, Jürgen Ihlemann
    Pages 169-183
  7. Nonlinear Light Propagation in Laser-Written Waveguide Arrays

    • Matthias Heinrich, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameit
    Pages 185-205
  8. Fiber-Optical 3D Shape Sensing

    • Christian Waltermann, Jan Koch, Martin Angelmahr, Jörg Burgmeier, Markus Thiel, Wolfgang Schade
    Pages 227-250
  9. Polarized Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers

    • Oliver Fitzau
    Pages 251-263
  10. Back Matter

    Pages 265-274

About this book

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical concepts and experimental applications of planar waveguides and other confined geometries, such as optical fibres. Covering a broad array of advanced topics, it begins with a sophisticated discussion of planar waveguide theory, and covers subjects including efficient production of planar waveguides, materials selection, nonlinear effects, and applications including species analytics down to single-molecule identification, and thermo-optical switching using planar waveguides. Written by specialists in the techniques and applications covered, this book will be a useful resource for advanced graduate students and researchers studying planar waveguides and optical fibers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Laser-Laboratorium Göttingen e.V., Göttingen, Germany

    Gerd Marowsky

About the editor

Prof. Gerd Marowsky is Director of the Laser Laboratorium Goettingen (LLG), and Professor, Department of Physics, University of Göttingen. He graduated in 1969 from the University of Goettingen, Germany with degrees in the fields of experimental and theoretical physics and mineralogy. He has made numerous scientific contributions to the general field of lasers and high-field interactions.  Prof. Marowsky previously edited the Springer book "Excimer Laser Technology."

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