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Essential semiconductor laser device physics /

The invention of the semiconductor laser along with silica glass fiber has enabled an incredible revolution in global communication infrastructure of direct benefit to all. Development of devices and system concepts that exploit the same fundamental light-matter interaction continues. Researchers an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leviu, A. F. J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2018]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 5.
IOP concise physics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Semiconductor band structure and heterostructures
  • 1.1. Atom shape and crystal structure
  • 1.2. Hybridization
  • 1.3. Crystal structure
  • 1.4. The one-electron Schrödinger equation
  • 1.5. Bloch's theorem
  • 1.6. The origin of complex band structure
  • 1.7. The tight binding method
  • 1.8. Tight binding in three dimensions
  • 1.9. The semiconductor heterostructure
  • 1.10. Double heterostructure laser diode
  • 2. Spontaneous emission and optical gain
  • 2.1. Spontaneous and stimulated emission
  • 2.2. Optical transitions using the golden rule
  • 2.3. Comments on the success of a simple model
  • 3. The semiconductor laser diode
  • 3.1. Designing a laser diode
  • 4. Single-mode rate equations
  • 4.1. Continuum mean-field single-mode semiconductor laser diode rate equations
  • 4.2. Numerical method for solving rate equations
  • 4.3. Large-signal transient response
  • 4.4. Small-signal intensity response
  • 5. Noise and fluctuations
  • 5.1. Relative intensity noise (RIN)
  • 5.2. Langevin intensity rate equations
  • 5.3. Fluctuations and temperature dependence
  • 6. Quantum behavior
  • 6.1. An experiment to prove the photon exists
  • 6.2. The beam splitter
  • 6.3. The Mandel effect : transmission of two indistinguishable photons at a beam splitter
  • 6.4. Transmission of n indistinguishable photons at a beam splitter
  • 6.5. Quantization of photon field and atom
  • 6.6. The mesoscale laser.