Bernard C. Kress & Patrick Meyrueis 
Applied Digital Optics [PDF ebook] 
From Micro-optics to Nanophotonics

Miniaturization and mass replications have begun to lead the
optical industry in the transition from traditional analog to novel
digital optics. As digital optics enter the realm of mainstream
technology through the worldwide sale of consumer electronic
devices, this timely book aims to present the topic of digital
optics in a unified way. Ranging from micro-optics to
nanophotonics, and design to fabrication through to integration in
final products, it reviews the various physical implementations of
digital optics in either micro-refractives, waveguide (planar
lightwave chips), diffractive and hybrid optics or sub-wavelength
structures (resonant gratings, surface plasmons, photonic crystals
and metamaterials). Finally, it presents a comprehensive list of
industrial and commercial applications that are taking advantage of
the unique properties of digital optics.

Applied Digital Optics is aimed primarily at optical
engineers and product development and technical marketing managers;
it is also of interest to graduate-level photonics students and
micro-optic foundries.

* Helps optical engineers review and choose the appropriate
software tools to design, model and generate fabrication
files.

* Gives product managers access to an exhaustive list of
applications available in today’s market for integrating such
digital optics, as well as where the next potential application of
digital optics might be.

* Provides a broad view for technical marketing managers in all
aspects of digital optics, and how such optics can be
classified.

* Explains the numerical implementation of optical design and
modelling techniques.

* Enables micro-optics foundries to integrate the latest
fabrication and replication techniques, and accordingly fine tune
their own fabrication processes.

Sobre el autor

Bernard Kress has been involved in the field of digital
optics since the late 1980s. He is an associate professor at the
University of Strasbourg, France, teaching digital optics. For the
last 15 years Dr Kress has been developing technologies and
products related to digital optics. He has been working with
established industries around the world and with start-ups in the
Silicon Valley, California, with applications ranging from optical
data storage, optical telecom, military and homeland security
applications, LED and laser displays, industrial and medical
sensors, biotechnology systems, optical security devices, high
power laser material processing, to consumer electronics. He is on
the advisory boards of various photonics companies in the US and
has also been advising venture capital firms in the Silicon Valley
for due diligence reviews in photonics, especially in micro-
and nano-optics.

He holds more than 25 patents based on digital optics technology
and applications, and is the author of more than 100 papers on this
subject. He has taught several short courses given at SPIE
conferences. His first book on digital optics, Digital
Diffractive Optics (2000), was published by John Wiley &
Sons, Ltd and has been translated into Japanese in 2005 (published
by Wiley-Maruzen). He is also the author of a chapter in the best
seller Optical System Design (2007), edited by R. Fisher and
published by Mc Graw-Hill. Bernard Kress can be contacted at href=’mailto:[email protected]’>[email protected].

Patrick Meyrueis is full professor at the University of
Strasbourg since 1986 (formerly Louis Pasteur University). He is
the founder of the Photonics Systems Laboratory which is now one of
the most advanced labs in the field of planar digital optics. He is
the author of more than 200 publications and was the chairman of
more than 20 international conferences in photonics. He was the
representative of the Rhenaphotonics cluster and one of the
founders of the CNOP in 2001 (national French committee of optics
and photonics). He is now acting as the scientific director of the
Photonics Systems Lab and the head of the Ph D and undergraduate
program in the ENSPS National School of Physics in Strasbourg.