Information Photonics Fundamentals, Technologies, and Applications

The main aim of this book is to introduce the concept of photonic information processing technologies to the graduate and post-graduate students, researchers, engineers and scientists. It is expected to give the readers an insight into the concepts of photonic techniques of processing as a system, the photonic devices as required components which are applied in the areas of communication, computation and intelligent pattern recognition.

1.Information Communication. Information. Probability. Entropy and information. Information Communication. Source encoding: Noiseless coding. Shannons theorems. Communication channels. Detection of information. Estimation of information. 2. Introduction to photonics. Information and physics. Photon and nature of light. Electromagnetic wave propagation. Electromagnetic spectrum. Optical imaging systems. Interaction of light and matter. Photometric image formation. 3. Vision, visual perception and computer vision. Introduction. Visual perception. Computer vision. Geometric primitives and transformations. 4. Photonic sources and detectors for information processing. Introduction. Elements of semiconductor physics. Photonic Sources. Photodetectors. 5. Photonic devices for modulation, storage and display. Photonic devices for light beam modulation. Photonic switching devices. Photonic storage in three dimensions. Flat panel displays. 6. Photonics in transform domain information processing. Introduction. Fourier transform. Hartley transform. Wavelet analysis and wavelet transform. Radon transform. Hough Transform. Photonic implementation of linear transforms. 7. Low level photonic information processing. Introduction. Low level image processing. Morphological operation. Photonic techniques of transformation of images into graphics. 8. Photonics in networking and communication. Light propagation in optical fiber. Photonic free-space communication. Photonic networks. Photonic secure communication. 9. Photonic computing. Introduction. Requirements of high-speed computing and parallel processing. Limitations of electronic computation. Photonics computing. Digital optics. Photonic multistage interconnection. Number systems for parallel photonic computing. Photonic computing architectures. Concluding remarks. 10. Photonic Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Processing. Introduction. Correlation filters for pattern recognition. System architecture and image Identification and recognition. Intelligent photonic processing. Artificial neural network (ANN). Associative memory model for 2D pattern recognition. Photonic implementation of artificial neural network. 11. Quantum information processing. Introduction. Notations and mathematical preliminaries. Von Neumann Entropy. Quantum bits (qubits). Entangled states and photon entanglement. Quantum computing. Quantum Communication. Concluding remarks. 12. Nanophotonic information system. Introduction. Nanophotonic devices. Photonic integration. Nanophotonic information systems. 13. Index.

Asit Kumar Datta is a former professor and ex-head of the Department of Applied Physics and later of the Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta. He received his Ph.D. in power electronics from the University of Calcutta, and started his career at the same university as a lecturer. In 1989, he was appointed professor of the same department and later moved to the newly created department of Applied Optics and Photonics. Professor Datta has contributed significantly to the area of power electronics, control instrumentation, photonics, and optical computing. He executed 12 funded and sponsored research projects and has published more than 120 papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings, and he has also guided 14 research students towards their Ph.D. degrees. Professor Datta is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, the Optical Society of India, and the Indian Society of Lighting Engineers. He represented India at the International Commission for Optics (ICO), Paris and was the Indian representative in two divisions of the International Commission of Illumination (CIE), Geneva. Soumika Munshi received her M.Sc. (Tech.) degree followed by a Ph.D. in Applied Physics with a specialization in Optics and Optoelectronics from the University of Calcutta in 1996 and 2003, respectively. She joined as a scientist at the Instrument Research and Development Establishment (IRDE), Dehradun, a laboratory of the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), under the Government of India’s Ministry of Defence, in 2004. She is now associated with DRDO headquarters in New Delhi, and worked in between at the Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad. Her areas of interest include: image processing, photonic computing, lasers, and photonic instrumentation. She has published and presented more than 30 papers in international and national journals and at conference proceedings.