Glass Photonics: Materials, Properties, and Applications

This book shows how glass photonics plays a crucial role in the current Age of Light. Glass photonics is a key enabling technology in several strategic areas: life science and health, in dustrial manufacturing andquality, information andcommunication technologies, lighting, sensing and displays, quantum technology, laser, light management and, more generally, for the development of groundbreaking optical devices. Glass photonics is the field where photonics and glass science smartly cooperate to develop new physics, new devices, and new applications. We can claim that glass photonics is the cornerstone of scientific and technological building in the current Age of Light.