Optical Semiconductor Devices

Mitsuo Fukuda, NTT Opto-electronic Laboratories, Kanagewa, Japan


0471 14959 4 January 1999 Hardback 440pp



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A concise and practical guide, this volume is devoted to optical semiconductor devices and their numerous applications in telecommunications, optoelectronics and consumer electronics - areas where signal processing or the transmission of signals across fiber optic cables is paramount. Introducing a new generation of devices that includes optical modulators, quantum well (QW) lasers, and photodiodes, it also explores new applications of more established devices, such as semiconductor lasers, light-emitting diodes and photodiodes. The material properties, operation principles, fabrication, packaging, reliability and applications of each device are examined in detail, offering a unique industrial perspective, and presenting all the information engineers and scientists require at different phases of research, development and production.
  • Helps readers choose the right device for a given application
  • Covers important performance data, such as temperature and optical feedback noise in lasers
  • Highlights epitaxial growth techniques and fabrication for each device
  • Features one hundred figures and an extensive bibliography
  • Provides a clear and concise treatment, unencumbered by excessive theory

Contents:

  • Basics of Optoelectronic pn-Junction Devices: Basics of Semiconductors for Optoelectronic pn-Junction Devices
  • pn-Junctions and Heterostructures
  • Low-Dimensional Structures - Quantum Wells, Strained Quantum Wells, and Other Quantum Structures
  • Light-Emitting Diodes: Basic Structure of LEDs
  • Laser Diodes: Basic Structure of Laser Diodes: Fabry-Perot Lasers
  • Basic Characteristics of Laser Diodes
  • Active Layers: Bulk, Quantum Well, and Strained Quantum Well Types
  • Single Longitudinal Mode Laser Diodes
  • Operating Characteristics
  • High-Power Laser Diodes and Surface-Emitting Laser Diodes
  • Photodiodes: Basics of Photodiodes
  • Solar Cells
  • pin-Photodiodes
  • Avalanche Photodiodes
  • Frequency Response
  • Noise and Signal-to-Noise Radio for Avalanche Photodiodes
  • Superlative APDs
  • Optical Modulators: Physical Phenomena Used in Optical Modulation
  • Basics of Optical Modulators
  • Device Fabrication and Packaging: Crystal Growth
  • Device Processes
  • Packaging
  • Reliability: Basics of Reliability
  • Basics of Degradation and Reliability for Optoelectronic pn-Junction Devices
  • Reliability
  • Packaging Problems
  • Electrical Surge and Electrostatic Discharge
  • Application of Optoelectronic pn-Junction Devices: Optoelectronic pn-Junction Devices in Fiber Optics
  • Optoelectronic pn-Junction Devices in Beam Optics
Series: Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering


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