Reading 2025

10 Pages/day with notes. Highlight important contents for a dedicated 1-month recap.

  • John D. Joannopoulos, Steven G. Johnson, Joshua N. Winn, and Robert D. Meade, Photonic crystals: Molding the flow of light, 2nd edition (26 days, to understand the physics of photonic crystals beyond numerical simulations)
  • Stefan Alexander Maier, Plasmonics: Fundamentals and Applications (20 days, to understand the physics of plasmonics beyond the simple intuition of metal + light)
  • S. O. Kasap, Optoelectronics and photonics: principles and practices, 2nd edition (50 days, to review the physics of several important devices and draw inspiration to realize on-chip)