Microoptics

Micro-optics has become one of the fastest developing areas of optical research. Technologies for the fabrication of micro-optical components have been adapted from very large scale integration processes. Parallel to passive micro-optical components, optoelectronics research has lead to miniaturised components which can be used as sources, detectors, or modulators for highly integrated optoelectronic systems. This volume gives an overview over the field of 3D micro-optics. It starts with an introduction to general aspects of micro-optics such as its definition, and the performance and scaling behavior of optical components. Then it focuses on planar fabrication techniques for microoptical components and presents a variety of components and optoelectronic devices which can be produced by these techniques. The reader is lead to array optics and connected to hot topics such as smart pixels. The last third of the book presents applications which cover optical memories, optical interconnection networks and optical computing.