Semiconductor Integrated Optics for Switching Light (Second Edition)

by Charlie Ironside

Overview

Semiconductor Integrated Optics for Switching Light (Second Edition) provides concise description of the physics and engineering of semiconductor optical waveguides for photonic and electronic switching with a focus on optical communication applications. It provides Python notebooks that illustrate the concepts discussed in the book. The book includes the following topics: linear and nonlinear optics, linear electro-optic effect electroabsorption and electrorefraction, nonlinear refraction, nonlinear optical devices.

Key Features

• Comprehensive introduction to the research literature on semiconductor integrated optics

• State of the art introduction into how this technology is deployed to make devices for optical communication systems

• Software – the Mathematica and Python notebooks which give the reader not only insight into how existing devices operate but also tools that can be used to design new devices

• Unique and cogent combination of fundamental physical principles and applications of semiconductor optical waveguides

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750335195
Publisher:	Institute of Physics Publishing
Publication date:	05/13/2021
Series:	IOP ebooks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	115
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Professor Ironside has over 30 years’experience in semiconductor optoelectronics research and in particular microfabrication of semiconductor photonic components such as laser diodes for optical communications systems, optical sensing and optical metrology systems. He has published over 120 research journal publications and 200 conference papers and has won awards for transferring research knowledge for commercial exploitation.