Microcavities (Series on Semiconductor Science and Technology)

Microcavities (Series on Semiconductor Science and Technology)

Rapid development of microfabrication and assembly of nanostructures has opened up many opportunities to miniaturize structures that confine light, producing unusual and extremely interesting optical properties. Microcavities addresses the large variety of optical phenomena taking place in confined solid state structures: microcavities. Realisations include planar and pillar microcavities, whispering gallery modes, and photonic crystals. The microcavities represent a unique laboratory for quantum optics and photonics. They exhibit a number of beautiful effects including lasing, superfluidity, superradiance, entanglement etc. Written by four practitioners strongly involved in experiments and theories of microcavities, it is addressed to any interested reader having a general physical background, but in particular to undergraduate and graduate students at physics faculties. "Starting with the basic physics of microcavities, quantum optics, and excitons, the reader is quickly led to the cutting edge of present-day research in a friendly, tutorial style. The book includes biographical sketches of the key personalities, together with a number of amusing cartoons to illustrate the physics, both of which add considerably to its appeal." --Contemporary Physics The first book to cover a new and rapidly developing research field in physics. Alexey Kavokin is Chair of Nanophysics and Photonics at the University of Southampton and Chair of Excellence at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". Jeremy J. Baumberg is Head of the Quantum Light and Matter group at the Physics and Astronomy School of the Southampton University. Guillaume Malpuech is CNRS Researcher, Head of Group at the Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Fabrice P. Laussy is in the Department of Theoretcial Physics at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.