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Author(s) -
Theodor Tamir
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2004.00460_1.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , information retrieval , psychology , library science
The aim of this book is to provide an actual collection of highlights in the technology, production, and novel applications of waveguides and other confined geometries, in particular optical fibers. It is well known that waveguide phenomena are nowadays a textbook subject and some energy is needed to prove that waveguide problems are still of great scientific and commercial interest. Any textbook approach should go back to the books by Theodor Tamir,1 who always considered waveguiding as the heart of any integrated optics. It is very interesting to study the details of his first book on this subject in as early as 1975. There he dated the beginning of integrated optics to the late 1960s and mentioned as primary applications signal processing and optical communications. It is striking to note that he did not mention at this time any analytical applications (lab-on-chip) or sensors. However, he already did mention the possible chances of novel optical phenomena opened by the concentration of high intensity fields in thin films and effects due to attendant enhancement of nonlinear and/or active properties of such films. It should be emphasized that at least two contributions in this book deal with nonlinear phenomena in waveguiding structures and potential applications. Contributions came from Europe, Canada, and Israel. The manuscripts have been arranged as follows: