"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Quantum tunnelling devices -- 1.3. Negative differential conductance -- 1.4. Nonlinear dynamics -- 1.5. Optoelectronic integrated circuits -- 1.6. Outline2. Quantum tunnelling -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Negative differential resistance -- 2.3. Calculating the transmission pro…
"Version: 20230501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. A historical, mathematical and optical introduction for beginners. 1. A brief history of stigmatic lens desing -- 1.1. The rise of geometrical optics -- 1.2. Optics of the ancient Greeks and Arab world -- 1.3. Snell, Descartes, Huygens, Newton and Fermat -- 1.4. 19th and 20th century -- 1.5. The computer era and t…
"Version: 20240701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. Historical background -- 1.2. Some recent advances -- 1.3. Motivations -- 1.4. Features and potential advantages of metalenses2. Basics of metalens optics -- 2.1. Optics of metasurfaces -- 2.2. Metalens phase profile -- 2.3. Relationship with the classical lens -- 2.4. Meta-atoms -- 2.5. Lens equat…
"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- part I. Classical theory of light. 2. Electromagnetic field and light-matter interaction -- 2.1. Maxwell's equations, wave equation, and the Helmholtz equation -- 2.2. The propagator for the Helmholtz equation -- 2.3. Helmholtz equation in cylindrical coordinates : Bessel beams -- 2.4. Paraxial approxim…
"Version: 20250701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. What is quantum optics? -- 1.2. Open quantum systems -- 1.3. The mystery of the polaroids -- 1.4. This book2. Classical electromagnetism and linear optics -- 2.1. Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves -- 2.2. Wave equation for fields in a medium -- 2.3. Slowly varying envelope approximation…
"Version: 20241201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Wave propagation, properties, and manipulation -- 1.1. Maxwell's equations -- 1.2. Wave propagation and properties -- 1.3. Wave manipulation2. Dielectric responses -- 2.1. Anisotropic and dispersive characteristics -- 2.2. Dielectric Debye model -- 2.3. Lorentz model -- 2.4. Drude model -- 2.5. Transfer matrix method3.…
"Version: 20241001"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Fundamentals of the diatomic molecule. 1. Primer on diatomic spectroscopy -- 2. Formal quantum mechanics of diatomic molecular spectroscopy -- 3. Line strength computations -- 4. Framework of the Wigner-Witmer eigenfunction -- 5. Derivation of the Wigner-Witmer eigenfunction -- 6. Diatomic formula inferred from th…
"Version: 20250801"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Mathematical functions--a review -- 1.1. Introduction to mathematical functions -- 1.2. Trigonometry -- 1.3. Calculus -- 1.4. 2D functions -- 1.5. Introduction to complex variable functions -- 1.6. Harmonic functions -- 1.7. Special functions -- 1.8. Problems2. Optics fundamentals--a review -- 2.1. Basic concepts of ge…
"Version: 20250501"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Semiconductor band structure and heterostructures -- 1.1. Atom shape and crystal structure -- 1.2. Atomic orbitals and hybridization -- 1.3. The one-electron Schr?odinger equation -- 1.4. Bloch's theorem -- 1.5. The origin of complex band structure -- 1.6. The tight-binding method -- 1.7. Tight binding in three dimensi…
"Version: 20240701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. The Maxwell equations -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Lorentz force -- 1.3. Electric flux -- 1.4. The Gauss law -- 1.5. The Gauss law for magnetism -- 1.6. Faraday's law -- 1.7. Amp?ere's law -- 1.8. The wave equation -- 1.9. The speed and propagation of light -- 1.10. Refraction index -- 1.11. Electromagnetic waves -- 1.…