Edited by two recognised experts, this book in two volumes provides a comprehensive overview of integrated optics, from modelling to fabrication, materials to integration platforms, and characterization techniques to applications. The technology is explored in detail, and set in a broad context that addresses a range of current and potential future research and development trends.

• Part I: Characterization techniques
• Chapter 1: Optical characterization techniques
• Chapter 2: Structural and surface-characterization techniques
• Chapter 3: Integrated spectroscopy using THz time-domain spectroscopy and low-frequency Raman scattering
• Part II: Integrated optical waveguides, devices, and applications
• Chapter 4: Plasmonic nanostructures and waveguides
• Chapter 5: Crystalline thin films for integrated laser applications
• Chapter 6: Integration of optical microcavities
• Chapter 7: Electric and magnetic sensors based on whispering gallery mode spherical resonators
• Chapter 8: Nonlinear integrated optics in proton-exchanged lithium niobate waveguides and applications to classical and quantum optics
• Chapter 9: Next-generation long-wavelength infrared detector arrays: competing technologies and modeling challenges
• Chapter 10: Arrayed waveguide gratings for telecom and spectroscopic applications
• Chapter 11: Integrated quantum photonics
• Chapter 12: The optical reservoir computer: a new approach to a programmable integrated optics system based on an artificial neural network