Essential semiconductor laser device physics / A.F.J. Levi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leviu, A. F. J., author.

Contributor:

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, publisher.

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 5.

IOP concise physics

[IOP release 5]

IOP concise physics, 2053-2571

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiconductor lasers.

Physical Description:

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

Distribution:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2018]

Place of Publication:

San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2018]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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text file

Biography/History:

Tony Levi joined the faculty at the University of Southern California in mid-1993 after working for 10 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He invented hot electron spectroscopy, discovered ballistic electron transport in heterostructure bipolar transistors, demonstrated room temperature operation of unipolar transistors with ballistic electron transport, created the first microdisk laser, and carried out work in parallel fiber optic interconnect components in computer and switching systems. His current research interests include high-performance electronic and photonic systems, RF photonics, very small lasers and modeling their behavior, and optimal design of small electronic and photonic systems. To date he has published numerous scientific papers, several book chapters, is the author of the books Applied Quantum Mechanics and Essential Classical Mechanics for Device Physics, coeditor of the book Optimal Device Design, and holds 17 US patents.

Summary:

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 and technologists are pursuing a broad range of emerging applications, everything from automobile collision avoidance to secure quantum key distribution. This book sets out to summarize key aspects of semiconductor laser device physics and principles of laser operation. Supplementary MATLAB® materials are available for all figures generated numerically.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"Version: 20180701"--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 August 8, 2018).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781643270289

9781643270265

OCLC:

1048426299

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.