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Semiconductor integrated optics for switching light /

Semiconductor Integrated Optics for Switching Light (Second Edition) provides concise description of the physics and engineering of semiconductor optical waveguides for photonic and electronic switching with a focus on optical communication applications. It provides Python notebooks that illustrate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ironside, C. N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2021]
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 21.
IOP ebooks. 2021 collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Switching
  • 1.3. Linear optics : response theory and the Kramers-Kronig transformation
  • 1.4. Nonlinear optics
  • 1.5. Integrated optics--semiconductor optical waveguides
  • 1.6. Outline of book
  • 2. Linear electro-optic effect, electroabsorption and electrorefraction
  • 2.1. Dielectricifcation : linear electro-optic effect, electrorefraction and electroabsorption
  • 2.2. Electroabsorption and electrorefraction effects
  • 2.3. The electroabsorption modulator (EAM)
  • 2.4. Electro-refractive modulators
  • 2.5. The Franz-Keldysh effect in a vacuum!
  • 2.6. Conclusion
  • 3. Nonlinear refraction : second- and third-order optical nonlinearities
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Cascade second-order optical nonlinearity nonlinear phase change
  • 3.3. Two-photon effects
  • 3.4. Conclusions
  • 4. Nonlinear optical devices
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. The cascade second order optical switch--the push-pull switch
  • 4.3. AlGaAs optical waveguides for n2 switching
  • 4.4. The nonlinear directional coupler
  • 4.5. The Mach-Zehnder interferometer switch operating with n2
  • 4.6. Conclusions
  • 5. Semiconductor optical amplifiers
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Basics of semiconductor optical amplifiers
  • 5.3. Measurement of forward and reverse bias optical properties of semiconductors
  • 5.4. The dynamics of semiconductor optical amplifiers
  • 5.5. Conclusions
  • 6. Conclusions
  • 6.1. Discussion
  • 6.2. Quantum effects
  • 6.3. Future prospects.