Microcavities

Rapid development of microfabrication and assembly of nanostructures has opened up many opportunities to miniaturize structures that confine light, producing unusual and extremely interesting optical properties. This book addresses the large variety of optical phenomena taking place in confined solid state structures: microcavities. Realisations include planar and pillar microcavities, whispering gallery modes, and photonic crystals. The microcavities represent a unique laboratory for quantum optics and photonics. They exhibit a number of beautiful effects including lasing, superfluidity, superradiance, entanglement etc. Written by four practitioners strongly involved in experiments and theories of microcavities, it is addressed to any interested reader having a general physical background, but in particular to undergraduate and graduate students at physics faculties.

Professor Alexey Kavokin:

Chair of Nanophysics and Photonics at the University of Southampton and Chair of Excellence at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Professor Jeremy Baumberg

Head of the Quantum Light and Matter group at the Physics and Astronomy School of the Southampton University Dr Guillaume Malpuech

CNRS researcher, head of group at the Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France Dr Fabrice Laussy

Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Sheffield