Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Editors; Contributors; 1: Historical Facts toward Introduction of Fiber-Optics and Photonics; 2: Photonics: A Dream of Modern Technology; 3: Optical Fiber and Its Application in Communication-An Overview; 4: Progress on Optical Fiber Sensor for the Measurement of Physical Parameters and Chemical Sensing; 5: Laser Applications in Medicine and Photodynamic Therapy; 6: Attempts to Build Light Energy Conversion Devices; 7: Fluorescence: Fundamentals and Applications 8: Nonlinear Frequency Conversion-A Versatile Approach to Achieve Broadly Tunable Coherent Radiation9: Photonics and Its Application in High-Voltage Engineering; 10: Techniques of Measurements of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Layered Nanomaterials for Applications in Photonics; 11: TiO2 Nanowire-Based Optical Sensor; 12: Computation of Electromagnetic Bandgap in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal; Index
The combination of laser and optoelectronics with optical fiber technology can enhance the seamless activities of fiber-optic communications and fiber-sensor arena. This book discusses foundations of laser technology, non-linear optics, laser and fiber-optic applications in telecommunication and sensing fields including fundamentals and recent developments in photonics technology. Accumulated chapters cover constituent materials, techniques of measurement of non-linear optical properties of nanomaterials, photonic crystals and pertinent applications in medical, high voltage engineering and, in optical computations and designing logic gates.