'… if you have a solid background in photonics and Matlab and want to be able to employ Matlab to simulate photonic systems and model photonic devices then this book is highly recommended. If you want a textbook for an introductory photonics course then this book would make good supplementary reading.' Charlie Ironside, Contemporary Physics
1. Introduction; 2. Basic facts from optics; 3. Basic facts from electromagnetism; 4. Slab waveguides; 5. Linear optical fibre and signal degradation; 6. Propagation of linear pulses; 7. Optical sources; 8. Optical amplifiers and EDFA; 9. Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA); 10. Optical receivers; 11. Finite difference time domain (FDTD) formulation; 12. Solar cells; 13. Metamaterials; Appendices; Index.