Coherent Semiconductor Optics: From Basic Concepts to Nanostructure Applications

✍ Scribed by Privatdozent Dr. Torsten Meier, Professor Dr. Peter Thomas, Professor Dr. Stephan W. Koch (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book introduces the basic theoretical concepts required for the analysis of the optical response of semiconductor systems in the coherent regime. The entire presentation is based on a one-dimensional tight-binding model. Starting with discrete-level systems, increasing complexity is added gradually to the model by including band-structure and many-particle interaction. Various linear and nonlinear optical spectra and temporal phenomena are studied. The analysis of many-body effects in nonlinear optical phenomena covers a major part of the book.

Only basic knowledge of quantum mechanics is required to benefit from the results presented in this book. Therefore, it is well suited as a textbook for advanced classes, for self-study, and for researchers interested in the field of semiconductor optics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-10
Experimental Techniques....Pages 11-16
Few-Level Systems....Pages 17-24
Coherent Tunneling....Pages 25-33
The Semiconductor Model....Pages 35-45
Single-Particle Properties....Pages 47-60
The Equation of Motion Approach....Pages 61-74
Dynamical Equations for Semiconductors....Pages 75-98
Front Matter....Pages 100-100
Linear Optical Response....Pages 101-140
Coherent χ (3) Processes for Level Systems....Pages 141-175
Coherent χ (3) and χ (5) Processes in Ordered Semiconductors....Pages 177-196
Coherent χ (3) and χ (5) Processes in Disordered Semiconductors....Pages 197-214
Coherent Excitation Spectroscopy....Pages 215-219
Character of Continuum Transitions....Pages 221-226
Front Matter....Pages 228-228
The Semiconductor with Applied Electric Field....Pages 229-254
Mesoscopic Semiconductor Rings....Pages 255-278
Coherent Density Dynamics in Disordered Semiconductors....Pages 279-290
Current Echoes....Pages 291-303
Problems....Pages 305-313
Back Matter....Pages 315-319

✦ Subjects

Solid State Physics;Spectroscopy and Microscopy;Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices;Engineering, general