This text aims to provide an accessible introduction and reference to opto-electronics for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level students, assuming the background of a first course in semiconductors and electronic devices. It starts with a description of the properties of compound semiconductors, quantum mechanics, semiconductor statistics and carried transport properties, optical processes, and junction theory coverage. Each device is presented in a dedicated chapter, and the properties of quantum well lasers and distributed feedback structures are also discussed. The work goes on to describe the principles of coherent detection, phototransistors, modulated barrier photodiodes, and metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) photodiodes, and concludes with a review on Opto-electronic Integrated Circuits (OEIC).
- ISBN10 0134897668
- ISBN13 9780134897660
- Publish Date November 1993 (first published 1 August 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pearson Education Limited
- Imprint Prentice-Hall
- Format Paperback
- Pages 624
- Language English