Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits

- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Fundamental Constants
1. Ingredients
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Energy Levels and Bands in Solids
1.3 Spontaneous and Stimulated Transitions: the Creations of Light
1.4 Transverse Confinement of Carriers and Photons in Diode Lasers: the Double Heterostructure
1.5 Semiconductor Materials for Diode Lasers
1.6 Epitaxial Growth Technology
1.7 Lateral Confinement of Current, Carriers, and Photons for Practical Lasers
2. A Phenomenological Approach to Diode Lasers
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Carrier Generation and Recombination Active Regions
2.3 Spontaneous Photon Generation and LEDs
2.4 Photon Generation and Loss in Laser Cavities
2.5 Threshold or Steady-State Gain in Lasers
2.6 Threshold Current and Power Out vs. Current
2.7 Relaxation Resonance and Frequency Response
2.8 Characterizing Real Diode Lasers
3. Mirrors and Resonators for Diode Lasers
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Scattering Theory
3.3 S and T Matrices for some Common Elements
3.4 Three- and Four-Mirror Laser Cavities
3.5 Gratings
3.6 DBR Lasers
3.7 DFB Lasers
3.8 Mode Suppression Ratio in Single-Frequency Lasers
4. Gain and Current Relations
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Radiative Transitions
4.3 Optical Gain
4.4 Spontaneous Emission
4.5 Nonradiative Transition
4.6 Active Materials and their Characteristics
5. Dynamic Effects
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Review of
Chapter 2
5.3 Differential Analysis of the Rate Equations
5.4 Large-Signal Analysis
5.5 Relative Intensity Noise and Linewidth
5.6 Carrier Transport Effects
5.7 Feedback Effects
6. Perturbation and Coupled-Mode Theory
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Perturbation Theory
6.3 Coupled-Mode Theory: Two-Mode Coupling
6.4 Modal Excitation
6.5 Conclusions
7. Dielectric Waveguides
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Plane Waves Incident on a Planar Dielectric Boundary
7.3 Dielectric Waveguide Analysis Techniques
7.4 Guided-Mode Power and Effective Width
7.5 Radiation Losses for Nominally Guided Modes
8. Photonic Integrated

Larry A. Coldren is the Fred Kavli Professor of Optoelectronics and Sensors at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has authored or coauthored over a thousand journal and conference papers, seven book chapters, and a textbook, and has been issued sixty-three patents. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA, and IEE, the recipient of the 2004 John Tyndall and 2009 Aron Kressel Awards, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
 
Scott W. Corzine obtained his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, for his work on vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). He worked for ten years at HP/Agilent Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, on VCSELs, externally modulated lasers, and quantum cascade lasers. He is currently with Infinera in Sunnyvale, California, working on photonic integrated circuits.
 
Milan L. Mashanovitch obtained his PhD in the field of photonic integrated circuits at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in 2004. He has since been with UCSB as a scientist working on tunable photonic integrated circuits and as an adjunct professor, and with Freedom Photonics LLC, Santa Barbara, which he cofounded in 2005, working on photonic integrated circuits.

" The book is very clearly written and has many demonstrated examples. It is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to learn about basic optoelectronic devices with every-day applications." ( Optics and Photonics News , 4 January 2013)

" The book is very clearly written and has many demonstrated examples. It is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to learn about basic optoelectronic devices with every-day applications." ( Optics and Photonics News , 4 January 2013)