Overview of the best photonics books: 2025 update
Tom Ako
If you are looking for information about photonics, you have many resources at your disposal.
You have tweets, articles, blog posts (like this one), brochures, flyers, whitepapers, videos, and of course books.
From among the resources listed above books remain the primary source of what I call “first principles” knowledge of photonics.
Photonics is a progressive discipline that is evolving fast. This evolution rests on a solid bedrock of knowledge contained in books.
So it is only natural then..