Weiner J., Nunes F. Light-Matter Interaction: Physics and Engineering at the Nanoscale

2nd Edition. — Oxford University Press, UK, 2017. — 433 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–879667–1.Light–matter interaction pervades the disciplines of optical and atomic physics, condensed matter physics, electrical engineering, molecular biology, and medicine with frequency and length scales extending over many orders of magnitude. Deep earth and sea communications use frequencies of a few tens of Hz, and X-ray imaging requires sources oscillating at hundreds of petaHz (1015 s–1). Length scales range from thousands of kilometres to a few hundred picometres. Although the present book makes no pretence to offer an exhaustive treatise on this vast subject, it does aim to provide advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers from diverse disciplines, the principal tools required to understand and contribute to rapidly advancing developments in light–matter interaction centred at optical frequencies and length scales, from a few hundred nanometres to a few hundredths of a nanometre. Classical electrodynamics, with an emphasis on the macroscopic expression of Maxwell’s equations, physical optics, and quantum mechanics provide their own perspectives and physical interpretations at these length scales. Circuit theory and waveguide theory from electrical engineering furnish useful analogies and often offer important insights into the nature of these interactions. A principal aim of this book is to deploy this arsenal of powerful tools so as to render the subject in forms not likely to be encountered in standard physics or engineering courses, while not straying too far into eccentricity.Historical Synopsis of Light–Matter Interaction
Elements of Classical Electrodynamics
Physical Optics of Plane Waves
Energy Flow in Polarisable Matter
The Classical Charged Oscillator and the Dipole Antenna
Classical Black-body Radiation
SurfaceWaves
Transmission Lines and Waveguides
Metamaterials
Momentum in Fields and Matter
Atom-Light Forces
Radiation in Classical and Quantal Atoms
Appendices
Numerical Constants and Dimensions
Systems of Units in Electromagnetism
Review of Vector Calculus
Gradient, Divergence, and Curl in Cylindrical and Polar Coordinates
Properties of Phasors
Properties of the Laguerre Functions
Properties of the Legendre Functions
Properties of the Hermite Polynomials