Physics of Optoelectronics (Optical Engineering)

By: Michael A. Parker
ISBN: 0824753852, ISBN-13: 9780824753856
Publisher: CRC - 2005-05-23
Hardcover | 798 Pages

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Editorial Review:

Physics of
Optoelectronics integrates into one comprehensive treatment
introductions to semiconductor lasers and optics, linear algebra and
quantum mechanics for optoelectronics, and quantum optics. It builds
all the background you need to understand current research and
publications of laser engineering-physics, from the basics of lasers
and LEDs through the rate equations to the quantum mechanical
expressions for gain and optical fields. Topics include an introduction
to semiconductor lasers, a review of laser dynamics, classical
electromagnetics and lasers, vector and Hilbert spaces and other
mathematical foundations, quantum fields and other fundamentals of
light, matter-light interaction, and semiconductor emitters and
detectors.


Table of Contents:

Ch. 1 Introduction to semiconductor lasers
Ch. 2 Introduction to laser dynamics
Ch. 3 Classical electromagnetics and lasers
Ch. 4 Mathematical foundations
Ch. 5 Fundamentals of dynamics
Ch. 6 Light
Ch. 7 Matter-light interaction
Ch. 8 Semiconductor emitters and detectors
App. 1 Review of integrating factors
App. 2 Rate and continuity equations
App. 3 The group velocity
App. 4 Review of probability theory and statistics
App. 5 The Dirac delta function
App. 6 Coordinate representations of the Schrodinger wave equation
App. 7 Integrals with two time scales
App. 8 The dipole approximation
App. 9 The density operator and the Boltzmann distribution