Semiconductor Optics 1 Linear Optical Properties of Semiconductors /

• Main Authors: Kalt, Heinz (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Klingshirn, Claus F. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 5th ed. 2019.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Physics,
• Subjects: Lasers.; Photonics.; Semiconductors.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Microwaves.; Optical engineering.; Solid state physics.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.; Solid State Physics.

This revised and updated edition of the well-received book by C. Klingshirn provides an introduction to and an overview of all aspects of semiconductor optics, from IR to visible and UV. It has been split into two volumes and rearranged to offer a clearer structure of the course content. Inserts on...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Maxwell's Equations, Photons and the Density of States
• Interaction of Light with Matter
• Ensemble of Uncoupled Oscillators
• The Concept of Polaritons
• Kramers-Kronig Relations
• Crystals, Lattices, Lattice Vibrations and Phonons
• Electrons in a Periodic Crystal
• Excitons, Biexcitons and Trions
• Plasmons, Magnons and Some Further Elementary Excitations
• Optical Properties of Phonons
• Optical Properties of Plasmons, Plasmon-Phonon Mixed States and of Magnons
• Optical Properties of Intrinsic Excitons in Bulk Semiconductors
• Optical Properties of Bound and Localized Excitons and of Defect States
• Optical Properties of Excitons in Structures of Reduced Dimensionality
• Excitons Under the Influence of External Fields
• From Cavity Polaritons to Photonic Crystals.-Review of the Linear Optical Properties
• Appendix
• Index.