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Summary: Works better as a reference book than a textbook
Review: As a technical scholar who deals in photonic research day in and day out I have felt that the Photonics book has always functioned more like a reference than a text. Unless one already a moderate familiarity with much of the subject material it can be dense and overly generally. The book itself however covers a huge amount of topics in optics. There is an overall lack of examples and practice problems for the student. I would recommend Yariv's Optical Electronics in Modern Communications for the Senior-Graduate level student.
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Summary: The best optoelectronics book I know.
Review: Excellent book for optoelectronics! It is written such a practical manner that it is easy to use both for studying and handbook. The level is deeper than Hecht's "Optics" but not so deep than Born&Wolf's "Principles of Optics". I recommend this book for everybody who research or studies optoelectronics. I like also the problems, although they are difficult, but they are just like 'real' problems what arise in research. Also, good reference lists after each chapter are great!
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Summary: Outstanding Book on Photonics for all Levels
Review: I currently lead an industrial R&D group in the area of optical device physics. However, I am new to this field and need good background information along with treatises on the state of the art in optics/photonics science and technology. "Fundamentals of Photonics" (Saleh and Teich) has not only admirably met this need for me but I find it to be one of the best written science texts I have ever read! SIMPLY OUTSTANDING!
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Summary: good book! worth the dough
Review: i have hecht's optics and have seen many other optics textbooks but this one is good for a general overview of all optics, photonics and fiber optic communication basics... it covers a bit of all fields in optics but does not go into very detailed study like hecht's or Yariv's book. Good one to start with , i guess.
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Summary: Good Dictionary to Optics for Researching
Review: I say straight, the book, is best refence book of my Opticals . It is just as a dictionary for looking up when reading paper or topical books . I think, the book is very necessary for ones study/researching on optics/solid/EM..etc
. the book is worthy of called " Bable "
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Summary: Good Dictionary to Optics for Researching
Review: I say straight, the book, is best refence book of my Opticals . It is just as a dictionary for looking up when reading paper or topical books . I think, the book is very necessary for ones study/researching on optics/solid/EM..etc
. the book is worthy of called " Bable "
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Summary: One stop review and reference for the photonics engineer
Review: Just got my copy and wish I had ordered it much earlier! I find it to be much more useful than the Handbook of Optics. It's very refreshing to find a book which has not been dumbed down so far as to be useless, yet not so mathematical as to be a stumbling block. This is one of the standard textbooks for undergraduate Photonics at Stanford.
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Summary: Exhaustive but verbose
Review: The book is divided into three parts, one covering general topics in optics, second part lasers and third part, brief discussion of assorted topics.The book is exhaustive and verbose. As a first book on photonics I would not recommend it. The information on lasers is enormous but the language fails to convey good understanding. The problems in the book are tough and without an answer key, it would be difficult to glean any understanding from it. However it is a useful reference book to have and and I would recommend using it wisely alongwith other material.
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Summary: Photonics Review
Review: The exercises are extremely difficult. It would be nice if you also printed an answer key giving the answrs to all of the odd or even numbered problems. Also the book could use a few more examples to show the student how to use each formula.
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Summary: excellent book for research in optics and lasers
Review: This book is excellent in the field of optoelectronice. The references are great. I am a graduate student in Engineering physics and doing my research in optoelectronic devices. Any one doing research in lasers, this book is an excellent source.
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