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Progress in Planar Optical Waveguides

  • Combines the transfer matrix method and the potential segmentation to study the graded-index waveguide
  • Introduces a novel waveguide structure, which is very useful in improving the sensing performance
  • Describes the enhanced Goos-Hänchen shift of the light beam from the symmetrical metal-cladding waveguide
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics (STMP, volume 266)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Basic Analysis on Optical Waveguides

    • Xianping Wang, Cheng Yin, Zhuangqi Cao
    Pages 1-16
  3. Transfer Matrix Method and the Graded-Index Waveguide

    • Xianping Wang, Cheng Yin, Zhuangqi Cao
    Pages 17-42
  4. Periodic Waveguides and MQW Waveguide

    • Xianping Wang, Cheng Yin, Zhuangqi Cao
    Pages 43-82
  5. Characterizing the Feature Parameters of Planar Optical Waveguide

    • Xianping Wang, Cheng Yin, Zhuangqi Cao
    Pages 83-112
  6. Surface Plasmon Wave

    • Xianping Wang, Cheng Yin, Zhuangqi Cao
    Pages 113-143
  7. Symmetrical Metal-Cladding Waveguide

    • Xianping Wang, Cheng Yin, Zhuangqi Cao
    Pages 145-162
  8. Goos–Hänchen Shift

    • Xianping Wang, Cheng Yin, Zhuangqi Cao
    Pages 163-189
  9. Optical Devices Based on the Attenuated Total Reflection

    • Xianping Wang, Cheng Yin, Zhuangqi Cao
    Pages 191-241

About this book

This book provides a comprehensive description of various slab waveguide structures ranged from graded-index waveguide to symmetrical metal-cladding waveguide. In this book, the transfer Matrix method is developed and applied to analyze the simplest case and the complex generalizations. A novel symmetrical metal-cladding waveguide structure is proposed and systematically investigated for several issues of interest, such as biochemical sensing, Goos-Hänchen shift and the slow light effect, etc. Besides, this book summarizes the authors’ research works on waveguides over the last decade. The readers who are familiar with basic optics theory may find this book easy to read and rather inspiring.

Authors and Affiliations

  • College of Physics and, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China

    Xianping Wang

  • Hohai University, Changzhou, China

    Cheng Yin

  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Zhuangqi Cao

About the authors

Dr. Xianping Wang is the Assistant Professor at Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China.

Dr. Cheng Yin is the Assistant Professor at Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Power Transmission and Distribution Equipment Technology, Hohai University, China.

Prof. Zhuangqi Cao is a Professor of Physics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He has published 5 books, more than 200 journal papers, and owns 21 awarded patents.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Progress in Planar Optical Waveguides

  • Authors: Xianping Wang, Cheng Yin, Zhuangqi Cao

  • Series Title: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48984-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-48982-6Published: 08 December 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-56965-8Published: 29 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-48984-0Published: 25 November 2015

  • Series ISSN: 0081-3869

  • Series E-ISSN: 1615-0430

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 241

  • Number of Illustrations: 58 b/w illustrations, 94 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Classical Electrodynamics

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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