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| Reviews |
| - ''Starting with the basic physics of microcavities, quantum optics, and excitons, the reader is quickly led to the cutting edge of present-day research in a friendly, tutorial style. The book includes biographical sketches of the key personalities, together with a number of amusing cartoons to illustrate the physics, both of which add considerably to its appeal.' Contemporary Physics, 2008' -
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| Description | | - First text fully covering the physics of microcavities.
- Reviews extremely rapid progress in this area over the last decade.
- Richly illustrated, with chapter summaries and ample range of exercises throughout the book.
- Combines basic theoretical concepts with descriptions of recent experiments.
- Gives a commanding perspective for creating new generations of opto-electronic devices based on microcavities.
| | Rapid development of microfabrication and assembly of nanostructures has opened up many opportunities to miniaturize structures that confine light, producing unusual and extremely interesting optical properties. This book addresses the large variety of optical phenomena taking place in confined solid state structures: microcavities. Realisations include planar and pillar microcavities,
whispering gallery modes, and photonic crystals. The microcavities represent a unique laboratory for quantum optics and photonics. They exhibit a number of beautiful effects including lasing, superfluidity, superradiance, entanglement etc. Written by four practitioners strongly involved in experiments and theories of microcavities, it is addressed to any interested reader having a general
physical background, but in particular to undergraduate and graduate students at physics faculties. |
Readership: Students and researchers in physics, engineering, and opto-electronics .
| Contents |
1.
Overview of microcavities
2.
Classical description of light
3.
Quantum description of light
4.
Semi-classical description of light-matter coupling
5.
Quantum description of light-matter coupling in semiconductors
6.
Weak-coupling microcavities
7.
Strong coupling: resonant effects
8.
Strong coupling: polariton Bose condensation
9.
Spin and polarisation
Appendices
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Alexey Kavokin, Chair of Nanophysics and Photonics at the University of Southampton and Chair of Excellence at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata",
Jeremy J. Baumberg, Head of the Quantum Light and Matter group at the Physics and Astronomy School of the Southampton University,
Guillaume Malpuech, CNRS researcher, head of group at the Blaise Pascal university, Clermont-Ferrand, France, and
Fabrice P. Laussy, Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Sheffield
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