Kasap S. An Illustrated Dictionary of Optoelectronics and Photonics...2000

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The title "An Illustrated Dictionary of Important Terms and Effects in Optoelectronics and Photonics reflects" exactly the contents of this dictionary. It is not meant to be an encyclopedia in this field but rather a selfcontained semiquantitative description of terms and effects that frequently turn up in optoelectronics and photonics courses at the undergraduate level. We have missed many terms but we have also described many; though, undoubtedly, our own biased selection. In our own view there is very little difference between optoelectronics and photonics, except that in the latter there may not be any electronics involved.
Today, photonics is a more fashionable term than the old optoelectronics term which usually conjectures images of LEDs, solar cells, optoisolators etc, whereas photonics is closely associated with optical communications and optical signal processing