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Essential semiconductor laser device physics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leviu, A. F. J. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2018]
Series:IOP (Series). Release 5.
IOP concise physics.
Subjects:
Semiconductor lasers.
Astrophysics.
SCIENCE / Astronomy.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.