Overview

This introduction to semiconductor optoelectronic devices provides an accessible, well-organized overview of optoelectronic devices that emphasizes basic principles. Coverage begins with an optional review of key concepts then progresses gradually through more advanced topics. This edition has been both updated and expanded. There is new coverage of nitrides and visible light emitters; more detailed treatment of transient phenomena and linewidth of lasers; the description of new types of modulators; more detailed treatment of distributed feedback lasers, surface-emitting lasers, avalanche and metal-semiconductor-metal photodiodes, photoreceivers and phototransistors, as well as the description of new devices such as the quantum cascade laser and the tunnelling injection laser.

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Author:   Pallab Bhattacharya
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 23.10cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.034kg
ISBN:  

9780134956565

ISBN 10:   0134956567
Pages:   640
Publication Date:   19 November 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

 1. Elemental and Compound Semiconductors.  2. Electronic Properties of Semiconductors.  3. Optical Processes in Semiconductors.  4. Junction Theory.  5. Light Emitting Diodes.  6. Lasers: Operating Principles.  7. Lasers: Structures and Properties.  8. Photodetectors.  9. Special Detection Schemes. 10. Solar Cells. 11. Optoelectronic Modulation and Switching Devices. 12. Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits. 13. Lightwave Networks. List of Symbols. APPENDICES:  1. Important Properties of Common Semiconductors.  2. Dispersion Relation of a Diatomic Lattice.  3. The Fermi Integral and Carrier Concentration in Degenerate Semiconductors.  4. Transition Probability of an Allowed Direct Transition.  5. The Kramers-Kronig Relations.  6. Radiation Density and Photon Density.  7. Parameters for Uniformly Doped Abrupt GaAs Junction at 300K.  8. Confined Modes in a Slab Waveguide.  9. Mode Cut-Off Conditions in Symmetric and Asymmetric Planar Slab Waveguides. 10. Calculation of Cladding Layer Thickness of Heterostructure Laser. 11. Oscillation Condition and Threshold Gain of Distributed Feedback Laser. 12. Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser. 13. Large-Signal Solution to Carrier and Photon Rate Equations. 14. Carrier Excess Noise Factors. 15. Optical Gain of a Phototransistor. 16. Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Balanced Detection System. 17. Electroabsorption in Biaxially Strained Quantum Wells. 18. Refractive Indices in Multilayered Materials. 19. Digital Receiver Sensitivity. 20. Power Flow in Dual-Channel Directional Coupler. Index.

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