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Optical Semiconductor Devices
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Mitsuo Fukuda, NTT Opto-electronic Laboratories, Kanagewa, Japan
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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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