Handbook of Silicon Photonics (Series in Optics and Optoelectronics)

Although the silicon photonics field is exploding, the basic physics are not new since silicon photonics is mainly about how to implementing those things on silicon. There are not many books that can catch up with the most recent development. This book covers most of the basic aspects of the silicon photonics reasonably well from some of the basic theory to fabrication and applications specifically associated for silicon photonics. If you want to look for detailed general principles about photonic devices, there are lots of books out there.

The content of this book doesn't really contain any of the latest research on silicon photonics, which has accelerated in the past few years. The author has written several books in the past and it seems that this is just another money making opportunity. Pavesi was once responsible for a Nature paper on optical gain in silicon, which nobody could ever validate, and nothing ever came of it. Time for something new and exciting that moves with the times. This book definitely does not, and any one who buys it would be really missing out on the latest advances in silicon photonics which do have value.