By
Joseph Simmons, University of Florida, Gainesville, U.S.A.
Kelly Potter, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Description
This book presents, in a unified form, the underlying physical and structural processes that determine the optical behavior of materials.
It does this by combining elements from physics, optics, and materials science in a seamless manner, and introducing quantum mechanics
when needed. The book groups the characteristics of optical materials into classes with similar behavior. In treating each type of material,
the text pays particular attention to atomic composition and chemical makeup, electronic states and band structure, and physical microstructure
so that the reader will gain insight into the kinds of materials engineering and processing conditions that are required to produce a
material exhibiting a desired optical property. The physical principles are presented on many levels, including a physical explanation,
followed by formal mathematical support and examples and methods of measurement. The reader may overlook the equations with no loss of
comprehension, or may use the text to find appropriate equations for calculations of optical properties.
Audience:
Industrial libraries and research groups in the industry dealing with optics and optical devices including lasers, fiber optic communications,
applications to materials characterization, thin film processes, vacuum techniques,and electronic devices and principles, as well as
spectroscopy. Libraries at most research and academic institutions where there is activity in optics and optics-related fields including
applications in materials, condensed matter physics, and electronics.
