Semiconductor Optics

This updated and enlarged new edition of Semiconductor Optics provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. Coverage includes linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible, sufficient for an intuitive understanding of the experimental results and techniques treated. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics such as cavity polaritons, photonic structures, structures of reduced dimensionality or the semiconductor Bloch equations, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. The second edition, which appeared in 2005 and contains substantial - dates and amendments compared to the ?rst one and its corrected reprints, was again favourably received by the students and the scienti?c community worldwide. Asaconsequence,thepresentthirdeditionbecamenecessary.Thechanges introduced are, compared to the sedond edition, more limited, among others because the time elapsed between second and third edition is much shorter than the time between ?rst and second one. The main chances concern the following points: The discussion about the density, at which an electron-holeplasma is formed, has been up-dated, in the section about photonic crystals a few comments on meta-materials have been added, several new and timely references have been included and some of the misprints have been removed. Karlsruhe, C.F. Klingshirn August 2006 Preface to the Second Edition The book on Semiconductor Optics has been favourably received by the s- dents and the scienti?c community worldwide. After the ?rst edition, which appeared in 1995 several reprints became necessary starting from 1997, one of them for the Chinese market. They contained only rather limited updates of the material and corrections. In the meantime scienti?c progress brought a lot of new results, which necessitate a new, seriously revised edition. This progress includes bulk se- conductors, but especially structures of reduced dimensionality. These new trends and results are partly included in existing chapters e.g. for phonons or for time-resolved spectroscopy, partly new chapters have been introduced like the ones on cavity polaritons and photonic structures. Front Matter....Pages I-XXVII Introduction....Pages 1-10 Maxwell’s Equations, Photons and the Density of States....Pages 11-35 Interaction of Light with Matter....Pages 37-72 Ensemble of Uncoupled Oscillators....Pages 73-91 The Concept of Polaritons....Pages 93-124 Kramers-Kronig Relations....Pages 125-129 Crystals, Lattices, Lattice Vibrations and Phonons....Pages 131-161 Electrons in a Periodic Crystal....Pages 163-242 Excitons, Biexcitons and Trions....Pages 243-264 Plasmons, Magnons and some Further Elementary Excitations....Pages 265-273 Optical Properties of Phonons....Pages 275-289 Optical Properties of Plasmons, Plasmon-Phonon Mixed States and of Magnons....Pages 291-297 Optical Properties of Intrinsic Excitons in Bulk Semiconductors....Pages 299-349 Optical Properties of Bound and Localized Excitons and of Defect States....Pages 351-369 Optical Properties of Excitons in Structures of Reduced Dimensionality....Pages 371-410 Excitons Under the Influence of External Fields....Pages 411-438 From Cavity Polaritons to Photonic Crystals....Pages 439-460 Review of the Linear Optical Properties....Pages 461-465 High Excitation Effects and Nonlinear Optics....Pages 467-482 The Intermediate Density Regime....Pages 483-528 The Electron-Hole Plasma....Pages 529-562 Stimulated Emission and Laser Processes....Pages 563-580 Time Resolved Spectroscopy....Pages 581-654 Optical Bistability, Optical Computing, Spintronics and Quantum Computing....Pages 655-684 Experimental Methods....Pages 685-733 Group Theory in Semiconductor Optics....Pages 735-769 Semiconductor Bloch Equations....Pages 771-791 Back Matter....Pages 793-809 This updated and enlarged new edition of "Semiconductor Optics" provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV, including linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible, sufficient for an intuitive understanding of the experimental results and techniques treated. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics such as cavity polaritons, photonic structures, structures of reduced dimensionality or the semiconductor Bloch equations, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. Semiconductor Optics provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV, including linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. Mathematics is kept as elementary as possible, enough for an intuitive understanding of the experimental results and techniques treated. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics.