Confined Photon Systems

Description:

Confined photon system such as microcavities and photonic crystals are currently of great interest, both in terms of fundamental physics and as a result of potential applications. They enable the study of low-dimensional photonic systems, modified light-matter interaction, e.g. between excitons and photons in all-solid-state semiconductor microcavities, and of many phenomena of quantum optics, including single photon generation, squeezed light, quantum state entanglement, non-local quantum measurements, and, potentially, quantum computation. They are also on the verge of yielding new, high performance optical devices for large-scale industries such as telecommunications and display technology. The lectures in this book are organized in a didactic fashion, with a group of in-depth introductory lectures followed by more specialist contributions detailing particular applications of confined photon systems.

subjects: Optical properties,  Solid state physics,  Congresses,  Quantum electronics,  Photons,  Semiconductors,  Physics,  Laser physics,  Quantum optics,  Optical materials,  Photonics Laser Technology and Physics,  Quantum Optics, Quantum Electronics, Nonlinear Optics,  Optical and Electronic Materials