Information Photonics: Fundamentals, Technologies, and Applications

The main aim of this book is to introduce the concept of photonic information processing technologies to the graduate and post-graduate students, researchers, engineers and scientists. It is expected to give the readers an insight into the concepts of photonic techniques of processing as a system, the photonic devices as required components which are applied in the areas of communication, computation and intelligent pattern recognition.

本書的主要目的是向研究生、博士生、研究人員、工程師和科學家介紹光子信息處理技術的概念。預計通過本書，讀者將深入了解光子處理技術作為一個系統的概念，以及在通信、計算和智能模式識別等領域應用的光子器件作為必要組件。

Asit Kumar Datta is a former professor and ex-head of the Department of Applied Physics and later of the Department of Applied Optics and Photonics, University of Calcutta. He received his Ph.D. in power electronics from the University of Calcutta, and started his career at the same university as a lecturer. In 1989, he was appointed professor of the same department and later moved to the newly created department of Applied Optics and Photonics. Professor Datta has contributed significantly to the area of power electronics, control instrumentation, photonics, and optical computing. He executed 12 funded and sponsored research projects and has published more than 120 papers in national and international journals and conference proceedings, and he has also guided 14 research students towards their Ph.D. degrees. Professor Datta is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, the Optical Society of India, and the Indian Society of Lighting Engineers. He represented India at the International Commission for Optics (ICO), Paris and was the Indian representative in two divisions of the International Commission of Illumination (CIE), Geneva.

Soumika Munshi received her M.Sc. (Tech.) degree followed by a Ph.D. in Applied Physics with a specialization in Optics and Optoelectronics from the University of Calcutta in 1996 and 2003, respectively. She joined as a scientist at the Instrument Research and Development Establishment (IRDE), Dehradun, a laboratory of the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), under the Government of India's Ministry of Defence, in 2004. She is now associated with DRDO headquarters in New Delhi, and worked in between at the Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad. Her areas of interest include: image processing, photonic computing, lasers, and photonic instrumentation. She has published and presented more than 30 papers in international and national journals and at conference proceedings.

Asit Kumar Datta是加爾各答大學應用物理學系和應用光學與光子學系的前教授和系主任。他在加爾各答大學獲得了電力電子學的博士學位，並在該大學擔任講師開始他的職業生涯。1989年，他被任命為該系的教授，後來轉到新成立的應用光學與光子學系。Datta教授在電力電子學、控制儀器、光子學和光學計算等領域做出了重要貢獻。他執行了12個經費資助的研究項目，並在國內外期刊和會議論文集上發表了120多篇論文，還指導了14名研究生獲得博士學位。Datta教授是工程師學會、電子與通信工程師學會、印度光學學會和印度照明工程師學會的會士。他代表印度參加了國際光學委員會（ICO）巴黎會議，並擔任國際照明委員會（CIE）日內瓦分部的印度代表。

Soumika Munshi於1996年和2003年分別在加爾各答大學獲得應用物理學碩士（技術）學位和光學與光電子學專業的博士學位。她於2004年加入了印度國防研究與發展組織（DRDO）下屬的儀器研究與發展機構（IRDE）作為科學家，該機構隸屬於印度國防部。她現在與DRDO總部位於新德里，並曾在海得拉巴的國防研究與發展實驗室工作。她的研究興趣包括：影像處理、光子計算、激光和光子儀器。她在國際和國內期刊以及會議論文集上發表和發表了30多篇論文。