Advanced Optoelectronic Devices

✍ Scribed by Professor Daniela Dragoman, Professor Mircea Dragoman (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 432
• Series: Springer Series in Photonics 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Advanced Optoelectronic Devices gives the first unified presentation of the major developments in this field, both in terms of their physical background and with respect to applications. It covers devices based on the properties of quantum wells and fiber optics together with their applications in optical communications and signal processing. It also includes a comprehensive mathematical treatment and state-of-the-art presentation of the latest research in applied optoelectronics and semiconductor physics. The two different and complementary physical theories that describe optoelectronic devices, namely the electromagnetic field theory and quantum mechanics, are treated jointly in such a way as to reveal links and analogies wherever possible. This provides a better understanding of the basic processes. Therefore, the book is not simply a catalogue of different exotic devices but a presentation of a great variety of devices based on the same, or similar, physical phenomena.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Basic Concepts of Optoelectronic Devices....Pages 1-60
Devices for Coherent Light Generation....Pages 61-178
Modulators....Pages 179-236
Photodetectors....Pages 237-293
Optical Signal Multiplexing/Demultiplexing....Pages 295-333
Optical Signal Processing Devices....Pages 335-390
Back Matter....Pages 391-424

✦ Subjects

Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices;Nanotechnology;Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation;Communications Engineering, Networks