Optoelectronics [Paperback]

Optoelectronics, first published in 2002, is a practical and self-contained textbook written for graduate students and engineers.Optoelectronics is a practical and self-contained graduate-level textbook on the subject, which will be of great value to both students and practising engineers. Sophisticated concepts are introduced in a practical and coherent way, including such topics as quantum mechanics of electron-photon interaction, quantisation of the electro-magnetic field and semiconductor properties. The book builds on these concepts to describe the physics, properties and performances of the main optoelectronic devices, and concludes by presenting the latest devices, including quantum well infrared photodetectors, quantum cascade lasers and optical frequency converters.Optoelectronics is a practical and self-contained graduate-level textbook on the subject, which will be of great value to both students and practising engineers. Sophisticated concepts are introduced in a practical and coherent way, including such topics as quantum mechanics of electron-photon interaction, quantisation of the electro-magnetic field and semiconductor properties. The book builds on these concepts to describe the physics, properties and performances of the main optoelectronic devices, and concludes by presenting the latest devices, including quantum well infrared photodetectors, quantum cascade lasers and optical frequency converters.Optoelectronics is a practical and self-contained graduate-level text on the subject. The authors include such topics as quantum mechanics of electron-photon interaction, quantization of the electro-magnetic field, semiconductor properties, quantum theory of heterostructures and nonlinear optics. They build on these concepts to describe the physics, properties and performances of light-emitting diodes, quantum well lasers, photodetectors, optical parametric oscillators and waveguides. The emphasis is on the unifying theoretical analogies of optoelectrolC