Yariv and Yeh Photonics — Worked Exercise Solutions
This collection accompanies Amnon Yariv and Pochi Yeh, Photonics: Optical Electronics in Modern Communications, sixth edition (Oxford University Press, 2007). It covers all 263 numbered end-of-chapter problems across the book’s 18 chapters.
The scan is image-only, so the inventory was checked from the printed problem pages and from the pages on which each references section begins. The original prompts are not reproduced. Read the numbered problem in the book, then use the corresponding entry here for the governing equation, solution route, and verification.
Foundations, beams, and resonators
Lasers, modulation, noise, and detection
- Chapter 5: Interaction of Radiation and Atomic Systems
- Chapter 6: Theory of Laser Oscillation and Laser Systems
- Chapter 7: Chromatic Dispersion and Polarization-Mode Dispersion
- Chapter 8: Nonlinear Optics
- Chapter 9: Electro-optic Modulation of Laser Beams
- Chapter 10: Noise in Optical Detection and Generation
- Chapter 11: Detection of Optical Radiation
Periodic media, waveguides, fibers, and devices
- Chapter 12: Wave Propagation in Periodic Media
- Chapter 13: Waveguide Coupling
- Chapter 14: Nonlinear Optical Effects in Fibers
- Chapter 15: Semiconductor Lasers: Theory and Applications
- Chapter 16: Advanced Semiconductor Lasers
- Chapter 17: Optical Amplifiers
- Chapter 18: Classical Treatment of Quantum Noise and Squeezed States