Publisher's Synopsis
The book provides the reader with a firm understanding of the relationship between structure and fields and provides him or her with the analytic and numerical tools necessary to analyze structures and design them to produce desired field behavior. The book is neither a cookbook nor a textbook, but a how-to book. It assumes the reader is familiar with electromagnets and photonics, including optical device physics. Through discussion, and graphic examples and demonstrations included on the accompanying CD-ROM, the reader is guided through the process of determining tools appropriate for a specific task and is presented sufficient detail to duplicated the methods and build upon them. Researchers engaged in diffractive optics, photonic bandgaps, lithography, photonic device development, and nanotechnology should find the book useful.
