Introduction to Optical Components

""This book provides a practical description of optics that satisfies the needs often encountered by some engineers in the practice of their profession. Optical components, included optical sources and detectors, have found their way in products that we buy for the house, and in industrial equipment. As a textbook, it provides an efficient tool for the student to gain in-depth knowledge of a subject, with homework problems to test and verify mastering of the subject."" —Antonio Sanchez-Rubio, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA ""This book covers all the experimental tools, described meticulously and with clear illustrations, which the students will need to perform their experiments. I wish I had this book when I taught an Optics course!"" —A.K. Ramdas, Purdue University, Indiana, USA ""Introduction to Optical Components is concise and well written. To my knowledge this is the first textbook on optical components, and it presents an attractive alternative to standard engineering and physics textbooks that struggle to communicate both theory and applications of optical phenomena and simply are not able to effectively cover the foundations for optical components in everyday engineering systems."" —Dennis L Polla, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA ""This book is in the form of a textbook for an undergraduate course in optics and technology. It is concise, free of mathematical derivations and contains several tables providing a huge number of optical parameters which may be useful for optical design engineers as well. An appendix with the solutions to homework problems is also included at the end. The book is organized and well written, both as textbook for students and a brief handbook for optical engineers."" —Reva Garg, Institute of Physics, University of Brasilia, Brazil