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Title: Fundamentals of Photonics (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics)
ISBN: 0471358320
Author:
Bahaa E. A. Saleh
Malvin Carl Teich
Publicate Date: 2007-03-09
Publish: 2007-03-09
List Price: $148.50
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: Fantastic.
Beautifully written. Very clear.
Second edition has gorgeous color illustrations.
Extremely comprehensive and covers all important facets of photonics:
lasers, nonlinear and classical optics, photons/atoms, electromagnetic theory, fiber optics, and tons more.
But most importantly, it explains things in plain old English so you can understand the concepts, then walks you through the math.
Typically considered an undergrad book but I think it has plenty of material suitable for grad level learning in this field and is better written than many grad-level books out there. If you want to learn about lasers, optics, fiber optics, etc. this is a good addition to the library.
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2: Fundamentals of Photonics Review
The book arrived in great condition, but I bought it new. This is a great text for Senior students with an EE or Elctro-Optics background. It would also be a great text for first year Master's students. The book tries to do a bit of everything and is a great reference for anyone interested in optics to the professional optical/electrical engineer.
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3: One of the Essential Books of Optics to Own
If you are in the field of optics or biomedical optics, there are three to four books which would be the most essential to own. The is one of them. This book is comprehensive, dealing with all the most critical areas in field, yet easy to read. It is either outstanding in understanding the most basic concepts, yet a phenomenal reference on the derivations of relationships whose origin is left to the imagination in most textbooks. This is a must buy.
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4: A very good reference book
I found out about this book when I was looking for some materials on Photonics Switching and Computing. These topics and All-Optical Switches and Bistable Optical Switches, Optical Interconnections are covered in Chapter 21
But Chapter 22 containing Fiber-Optic Communication is very brief and for more detail one needs to go look for Kaiser's book.
All in all this book tries to encompass all the components in PHOTONICS and in doing so lacks the depth in some topics. But the good thing is that the references and journal publications are listed at the end of each chapter.
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5: Part of Saleh and Teich's great legacy - a truly classic text
If you could only have one general photonics book - this is the one to have. It must have been a 'labor of love' to write - and it is truly outstanding in its comprehensiveness and clarity.
I use it constantly - wouldn't be without it.
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