文档介绍：An Illustrated Dictionary of
Optoelectronics and Photonics:
Important Terms and Effects
Safa Kasap
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Harry Ruda
University of Toronto, Canada
Yann Boucher
École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Brest, France
Ali Javan and his associates William t Jr. and Donald Herriott at
Bell Labs were first to essfully demonstrate a continuous wave (cw)
helium-neon laser operation (1960). (Courtesy of Bell Labs, Lucent
Technologies.)
Concise Second Student Edition
Version (February 2002)
Illustrated Dictionary of Important Terms and Effects in Optoelectronics and Photonics ( 1999 . Kasap) 2
PREFACE
The title An Illustrated Dictionary of Important Terms and Effects in Optoelectronics and Photonics reflects
exactly the contents of this dictionary. It is not meant to be an encyclopedia in this field but rather a self-
contained semiquantitative description of terms and effects that frequently turn up in optoelectronics and
photonics courses at the undergraduate level. We have missed many terms but we have also described
many; though, undoubtedly, our own biased selection. In our own view there is very little difference
between optoelectronics and photonics, except that in the latter there may not be any electronics involved.
Today, photonics is a more fashionable term than the old optoelectronics term which usually conjectures
images of LEDs, solar cells, optoisolators etc, whereas photonics is closely associated with optical
communications and optical signal processing.
Please feel free to email us ments for improving the dictionary for its next edition. Although we
may not be able to reply individually, we do read all our email messages and take note of suggestions and
comments.
. Kasap,
Saskatoon, Canada
H. Ruda,
Toronto, Canada
Y. Boucher,
Brest, France
“I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not
sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant”
Alan Greens