Photonics: An Introduction

About the Author

Georg A. Reider is head of the Photonics Institute at the TU Vienna. He is giving graduate and post-graduate courses in photonics, nonlinear optics, Fourier optics, optical sensors and other areas. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of Innsbruck and is currently working at the TU Wien on nonlinear optics and related fields. He did photonics research at IBM Yorktown Heights, Columbia University, MPQ Garching and MPI Göttingen. He has published on surface second harmonic imaging, surface molecular dynamics, THz spectroscopy, fiber lasers, magneto-optics, laser micro-machining, laser plasma interactions, attosecond physics, and novel nonlinear materials.