Nonclassical Light from Semiconductor Lasers and LEDs

✍ Scribed by Dr. Jungsang Kim, Dr. Seema Somani, Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 253
• Series: Springer Series in Photonics 5
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The quantum statistical properties of the light wave generated in a semiconductor laser or a light-emitting diode (LED) has been a field of intense research for more than a decade. This research monograph discusses recent research activities in nonclassical light generation based on semiconductor devices. This volume is composed of four major parts. The first discusses the generation of sub-shot-noise light in macroscopic pn junction light-emitting devices, including semiconductor laser and light-emitting diodes. The second part discusses the application of squeezed light in high-precision measurement, including spectroscopy and interferometry. The third part addresses the Coulomb blockade effect in a mesoscopic pn junction and the generation of single photon states. The last part covers the detection of single photons using a visible light photon counter.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Nonclassical Light....Pages 1-11
Noise of p—n Junction Light Emitters....Pages 13-30
Sub-Poissonian Light Generation in Light-Emitting Diodes....Pages 31-40
Amplitude-Squeezed Light Generation in Semiconductor Lasers....Pages 41-56
Excess Intensity Noise of a Semiconductor Laser with Nonlinear Gain and Loss....Pages 57-75
Transverse-Junction-Stripe Lasers for Squeezed Light Generation....Pages 77-88
Sub-Shot-Noise FM Spectroscopy....Pages 89-105
Sub-Shot-Noise FM Noise Spectroscopy....Pages 107-122
Sub-Shot-Noise Interferometry....Pages 123-136
Coulomb Blockade Effect in Mesoscopic p-n Junctions....Pages 137-154
Single-Photon Generation in a Single-Photon Turnstile Device....Pages 155-178
Single-Photon Detection with Visible-Light Photon Counter....Pages 179-205
Future Prospects....Pages 207-219
Back Matter....Pages 221-244

✦ Subjects

Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices;Engineering, general;Communications Engineering, Networks