Optical Waves in Layered Media
Optical Waves in Layered Media
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DOI：
10.1080/09500349014550171
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发表时间：
1990
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
R. Thompson
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作者：
R. Thompson
作者在引言中指出，他们的目的是“为开始研究表面模式或将其范围从一种类型的表面模式扩展到另一种类型的人提供介绍性文本”。他们基本上已经做到了这一点。这本书虽然是一个概述，因为它不可避免地涉及如此大的研究领域，但仍然有足够的有用的基础材料。诚然，许多实验细节都缺失了，但感兴趣的读者总是可以转向更具体的文本来获取此类信息。尽管缺乏细节，作者还是小心翼翼地将所提出的理论与实验结果联系起来，一般来说，实验主义者的读者应该对本书的平衡感到满意。然而，实验主义者可能会觉得这本书的一个方面令人反感，那就是在几个地方使用了格林函数。值得赞扬的是，作者清楚地意识到这可能是一个问题，特别是如果将其用作高级本科教材，并提供了关于格林函数基本属性的附录。遗憾的是，该处理过于简短，并且主要涉及提供定义。此外，作者对正文中使用的格林函数的重要性几乎没有给出任何物理见解。将本书分为各个部分，对磁表面波的处理比实际需要的要长一些，而对超晶格中的电子态和光波的处理则太短。虽然对表面粗糙度影响进行了合理的简短讨论，但关于经常扰动表面的部分还是值得欢迎的。总体而言，本书将作为一本有用的介绍性文本，介绍表面和超晶格激发的许多方面，正如它的目标一样。 JR 样品
THE authors, in the introduction, state that their aim is' to provide an introductory text for someone starting research on surface modes or extending their range from one type of surface mode to another'. They have basically achieved this. The book, while being an overview as it must inevitably be for such a large field of research, nevertheless has enough foundation material to be useful. Admittedly much of the experimental detail is missing, but the interested reader can always turn to more specific texts for such information. Notwithstanding this lack of detail, the authors are careful to relate the theory presented to experimental results and in general the experimentalist reader should feel comfortable with the balance of the book.One aspect of the book, however, which experimentalists may find off-putting is the use of the Green function which occurs in several places. The authors, to their credit, are clearly aware that this may be a problem, especially if it is to be used as an advanced undergraduate text, and present an appendix on the basic properties of Green functions. Sadly, the treatment is too brief-and is primarily concerned with providing definitions. Further, the authors give little physical insight into the significance of the Green functions used in the main text. Breaking the book down into its various sections, the treatment of magnetic surface waves is somewhat longer than it need be, while the treatment of electron states and optical waves in superlattices is too short. While a justifiably brief discussion of surface roughness effects is presented, a section on regularly perturbed surfaces would have been welcome. Overall the book will serve, as it aims to do, as a useful introductory text for the many aspects of surface and superlattice excitations presented. JR SAMBLES