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Nanophotonics

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For a beginner, this is a good place to start to understand the basic principles and practise of Nanophotonics.

When you actually need to do something technical in this field, you will need a far more detailed text, or the basic research papers themselves, of course. Some of these are referenced here. Other books with the same title have more of a theoretical basis, and will be far more useful in that respect.

I have to agree with the "editorial reviews" above...this is a great book. It provides an excellent introduction to the field of nanophotonics, and covers a wide range of topics. It is not particularly math heavy, nor does it assume knowledge of much jargon, so is suitable for a fairly wide audience (advanced undergraduate or graduate level), but when you need more specific information it sends you to the right places. I find myself returning to it frequently.

Excellent reference book for the contemporary research and development work. I learned alot by reading this book. I actually followed up on the concept of wavelength up converters and down converters.There is a significant potential in these class of materials for use in medical technology, especially scintilation efficincy improvement. By deposition of converter emulsion in front of a scintilator which emits at UV- or near visible (400NM);short wavelnegth scintilation photons can be translated to two longer wavelength photons where semiconductor detectors have two to three times responsivity. therefore, on could use ordinary si-APD to work with NAI, etc. scintilators. i was also impressed by level of detail dedicated to polymers and their potential applications