Semiconductor integrated optics for switching light / Charlie Ironside.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ironside, C. N., author.

Contributor:

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, publisher.

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 3.

IOP concise physics

[IOP release 3]

IOP concise physics, 2053-2571

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiconductors--Optical properties.

Semiconductors.

Optoelectronic devices.

Optical wave guides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Distribution:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2017]

Place of Publication:

San Rafael [California] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2017]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader. or Kindle reader.

text file

Biography/History:

Professsor Charlie Ironside, BSc, PhD, FIET, FInstP has over 30 years' experience in semiconductor optoelectronics research and in particular microfabrication of semiconductor photonic components such as nonlinear optical switches, laser diodes and components for optical sensing and optical metrology systems. He has published over 125 research journal publications and 140 conference papers. He has co-authored 5 patents and has won an award for transferring knowledge from university research to industry for commercial exploitation. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering, Technology (FIET), a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) and senior member of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (IEEE).

Summary:

This book covers the technology of switching or modulating light in semiconductor optical waveguides. Currently a key function for optical communications systems is the conversion of data from an electrical signal to an optical signal for transmission in very low loss optical fibres and the converse process of optical to electrical conversion the O/E/O data conversion. It focuses on all-optical switching using second/third order optical nonlinearities in AIGaAs optical waveguides while covering a variety of device configurations including integrated nonlinear couplers and Mach-Zehnder interferometers.

Contents:

Preface

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. Dielectricfication : 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. Conclusion

3. Nonlinear refraction

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. The nonlinear directional coupler

4.4. The Mach-Zehnder interferometer switch operating with n2

4.5. Conclusions

5. Conclusions

5.1. Discussion

5.2. Quantum effects

5.3. Future prospects

6. Mathematica programs appendix

6.1. What is Mathematica?

6.2. Why Mathematica?

6.3. The notebooks.

Notes:

"Version: 20170801"--Title page verso.

"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on September 22, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781681745213

9781681745237

OCLC:

1004706164

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