Programmable integrated photonics

This title provides a comprehensive, up-to-date and self-contained introduction to the emergent field of Programmable Integrated Photonics (PIP). It covers both theoretical and practical aspects, ranging from basic technologies and the building of photonic component blocks, to design alternatives and principles of complex programmable photonic circuits, their limiting factors, techniques for characterisation and performance monitoring/control, and their salient applications both in the classical as well as in the quantum information fields.