Chapter 1 MICROPHOTONICS Current challenges and applications

Chapter 2 MICRO-OPTICAL RESONATORS FOR MICROLASERS AND INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS

Chapter 3 ADVANCED MODELING OF HIGHCONTRAST PHOTONIC STRUCTURES

Chapter 4 SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE (SPR) BIOSENSORS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN FOOD SAFETY AND SECURITY

Chapter 5 OPTICAL BIOSENSOR DEVICES AS EARLY DETECTORS OF BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS

Chapter 6 MODELING OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR PERIODIC STRUCTURES BY DIRECT INTEGRATION OF MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS IN THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN

Chapter 7 PROPAGATION OF OPTICAL PULSES THROUGH NON LINEAR PLANAR WAVEGUIDES WITH JUNCTIONS

Chapter 8 EFFICIENT FREQUENCY-DOUBLING OF FEMTOSECOND PULSES IN WAVEGUIDE AND BULK NONLINEAR CRYSTALS Design, fabrication, theory and experiment

Chapter 9 H:LiNbO 3 AND H:LiTaO 3 PLANAR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES: FORMATION AND CHARACTERIZATION

Chapter 10 HIGHLY EFFICIENT BROAD-BAND WAVEGUIDE GRATING COUPLER WITH A SUB-WAVELENGTH GRATING MIRROR

Chapter 11 INTEGRATED OPTICS DESIGN: SOFTWARE TOOLS AND DIVERSIFIED APPLICATIONS