Advances in Optical Physics: Volume 7 Advances in Condensed Matter Optics

✍ Scribed by Liangyao Chen; Ning Dai; Xunya Jiang; Kuijuan Jin; Hui Liu; Haibin Zhao; Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The authors of this book, all with a background in condensed matter physics, have carried out advanced researches in recent years to study the optical and magneto-optical properties of many kinds of new functional materials, including metal-based metamaterials, narrow-to-wide-bandgap semiconductors, thin films, and magnetic and magneto-optical materials by using different types of optical methods and instruments.

This book describes some of the more recent progresses and developments in the study of condensed matter optics in both theoretic and experimental fields. It will help readers, especially graduate students and scientists who are studying and working in the nano-photonic field, to understand more deeply the characteristics of light waves propagated in nano-structure-based materials with potential applications in the future.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
1 Optoelectronic properties of narrow band gap semiconductors
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Fundamental properties of NGSs
1.2.1 Electronic states and band structures
1.2.2 Structural characteristics
1.2.3 Crystal growth
1.2.4 Electronic properties
1.2.5 Optical properties
1.3 Narrow band gap semiconductors and their basic characteristics
1.3.1 Mercury cadmium telluride (Hg1-xCdxTe)
1.3.2 Indium antimonide (InSb), Indium arsenide (InAs), Indium arsenide antimonide (InAs1-xSbx)
1.3.3 Lead telluride (PbTe), lead selenide (PbSe), lead sulfide (PbS) and tellurium tin-lead (Pb1-xSnxTe)
1.3.4 Heterojunctions, quantum wells, and superlattices
1.4 Basic principles and applications of infrared optoelectronic devices
1.4.1 Basic principles of infrared detectors
1.4.2 Parameters for characterizing the performance of infrared detectors
1.4.3 Photoconductive infrared detectors
1.4.4 Photovoltaic infrared detectors
1.4.5 Quantum well infrared photodetectors
1.4.6 Infrared light sources: infrared light emitting devices and infrared lasers
2 The group velocity picture: the dynamic study of metamaterial systems
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Hyperinterface, the bridge between radiative and evanescent waves
2.2.1 Introduction
2.2.2 Model
2.2.3 Hyperbola dispersion and compressing light pulses effect at HI
2.2.4 Analysis of abnormal optical properties of HI with group velocity
2.2.5 Numerical experiments and results
2.2.6 Section summary
2.3 Methods for detecting vacuum polarization by evanescent modes
2.3.1 Study model
2.3.2 The phase change and delay time of evanescent waves in a tiny dissipative medium
2.3.3 Vacuum polarization and refraction index deviations of a vacuum
2.3.4 Detecting vacuum polarization: phase change and delay time
2.3.5 Section summary
2.4 The temporal coherence gain of the negative-index superlens image
2.4.1 Introduction
2.4.2 Model
2.4.3 Unusual phenomena
2.4.4 Physical images
2.4.5 Our theory
2.4.6 Section summary
2.5 Dynamical process for dispersive cloaking structures
2.5.1 Introduction
2.5.2 Study model
2.5.3 The physical dynamical picture of invisible cloaking
2.5.4 The key factor for the dynamics of invisible cloaking
2.5.5 Section summary
2.6 Limitation of the electromagnetic cloak with dispersive material
2.6.1 Introduction
2.6.2 The group velocity and physical limitation of invisible cloaking
2.6.3 Numerical results and discussion
2.6.4 Section summary
2.7 Confining the one-way mode at a magnetic domain wall
2.7.1 Introduction
2.7.2 Model
2.7.3 Confining the one-way mode
2.7.4 Robustness against roughness
2.7.5 Photonic splitters and benders
2.7.6 Section summary
2.8 Bullet-like light pulse in linear photonic crystals
2.8.1 Introduction
2.8.2 The condition for the existence of bullet-like light pulses
2.8.3 The bullet-like light pulse in PCs
2.8.4 Numerical validation
2.8.5 The effect of high-order dispersion
2.8.6 Section summary
2.9 Summary
3 Study of the characteristics of light propagating at the metal-based interface
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The free-electron gas model and optical constants of metal
3.3 Light refraction properties of a metal-based interface
3.3.1 Normal refraction
3.3.2 Calculations of effective refractive index and refraction angle
3.3.3 Negative refraction of metal-based artificial materials
3.3.4 Measurement of the effective refractive index and refractive angle of light in metal
3.3.5 Influence of variable refractive indices on light velocity
3.4 Affect of surface plasma waves on light propagation in metals
3.5 Conclusion
4 Photo-induced spin dynamics in spintronic materials
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Theory of magnetization dynamics
4.2.1 The Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert (LLG) equation
4.2.2 The Landau–Lifshitz–Bloch (LLB) equation
4.3 Optical techniques in studies of spin dynamics
4.3.1 Time-resolved magneto-optical spectroscopy
4.3.2 Time-resolved magnetic second-harmonic-generation (TR-MSHG)
4.4 Photo-induced demagnetization and magnetic phase transition
4.4.1 Demagnetization in transition ferromagnetic (FM) metals
4.4.2 Demagnetization in other FM materials
4.4.3 Ultrafast magnetization generation and FM phase transition
4.5 Photo-induced spin precession
4.5.1 Uniform spin precession and spin wave in FM materials
4.5.2 Spin waves in ferromagnetic materials
4.5.3 Mechanisms of spin precession excitation
4.6 Photo-induced spin reversal
4.6.1 Spin switching and reversal in FM materials
4.6.2 Spin reversal in ferromagnetic materials
4.7 Spin dynamics at interfaces and in antiferromagnets
4.7.1 MSHG and magnetism at interfaces
4.7.2 Spin dynamics in antiferromagnets
4.8 Conclusions and outlook
5 Research on the photoelectric effect in perovskite oxide heterostructures
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Perovskite oxide
5.2.1 Crystal structure
5.2.2 Electron structure
5.2.3 Mechanism for photoelectric effects in bulk perovskite oxides
5.3 Growth of perovskite oxide films
5.3.1 A brief introduction to the film-growth techniques
5.3.2 Laser molecular beam epitaxy
5.4 Logitudinal photoelectric effects in perovskite oxide heterostructures
5.4.1 Light-generated carrier injection effects
5.4.2 Photovoltaic effect
5.4.3 Theoretical study on longitudinal photoelectric effects
5.5 Lateral photoelectric effect in perovskite oxide heterostructures
5.5.1 Background
5.5.2 Unusual lateral photoelectric effect in perovskite oxide heterostructures
5.5.3 Theoretical study
5.6 Summary
6 Magnetic resonance and coupling effects in metallic metamaterials
6.1 Background
6.2 Magnetic metamolecules
6.2.1 Plasmon hybridization effect
6.2.2 Hybridization effect in magnetic metamolecules
6.2.3 Stereometamaterial
6.2.4 Optical activity in magnetic metamolecules
6.2.5 Radiation of magnetic metamolecules
6.2.6 Other designs of magnetic metamolecules
6.3 One-dimensional magnetic resonator chains
6.3.1 Periodic magnetic resonator chain
6.3.2 Nonperiodic chain of magnetic resonators
6.3.3 Nonlinear and quantum optics of magnetic resonators
6.4 Magnetic plasmon crystal
6.4.1 Two-dimensional fishnet structure
6.4.2 Two-dimensional nanosandwich structures
6.4.3 Quantum interference in a three-dimensional magnetic plasmon crystal
6.5 Summary and outlook
Index