Beschreibung:
Luca Dal Negro is Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a member of the Boston University Photonics Center, and he holds joint appointments in the Department of Physics and the Division of Materials Science at Boston University. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Trento, Italy. Professor Dal Negro is a fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). His research interests concern the behavior of electromagnetic fields in nanostructured materials and the engineering of complex photonic media.
An interdisciplinary introduction to the structural and scattering properties of complex photonic media, focusing on deterministic aperiodic structures and their conceptual roots in geometry and number theory. An essential tool for students at the graduate or advanced undergraduate level.
1. Introduction; 2. Electromagnetics background; 3. Optical dispersion models; 4. Wave propagation and diffraction; 5. Diffraction in optical engineering; 6. Wave scattering and coherence; 7. Structure factor and diffraction; 8. Tailored disorder; 9. Fundamentals of number theory; 10. Aperiodic order in number theory; 11. Aperiodic order and geometry; 12. Multiple scattering; 13. Analytical scattering theory; 14. Transport and localization.