Photonics Elements for Sensing and Optical Conversions

This book covers a number of a rapidly growing areas of knowledge that may be termed as diffractive nanophotonics. It also discusses in detail photonic components that may find uses in sensorics and optical transformations.

Nikolay Lvovich Kazanskiygraduated with honors (1981) from Kuibyshev Aviation Institute (presently, Samara NationalResearch University), majoring in Applied Mathematics. He received his Candidate inPhysics & Maths (1988) and Doctor in Physics &Mathematics (1996) degrees from SamaraNational Research University. He is the di-rector of Image Processing Systems Institute ofthe RAS-Branch of the Federal Scientific-Research Centre ＂Crystallography and Photonics＂of the Russian Academy of Sciences, also holding a part-time position of a professor atTechnical Cybernetics department of Samara National Research University. He is a memberof OSA, SPIE and IAPR. He co-authored 290 scientific papers, 14 monographs, 57inventions and patents. His current research interests include diffractive optics, computervision, optical sensors, mathematical modeling, lighting devices design, and nanophotonics