Semiconductor Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

• Main Authors: Yamamoto, Y. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Tassone, F. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Cao, H. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2000.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 169
• Subjects: Lasers.; Photonics.; Engineering.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Engineering, general.
• Physical Description: VIII, 156 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540455158
• ISSN: 0081-3869 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45515-9

Recent advances in semiconductor technology have made it possible to fabricate microcavity structures in which both photon fields and electron--hole pairs (or excitons) are confined in a small volume comparable to their wavelength. The radiative properties of the electron--hole pairs and excitons are modified owing to the drastic change in the structure of the electromagnetic-field modes. This book is the first to give a comprehensive account of the theory of semiconductor cavity quantum electrodynamics for such systems in the weak-coupling and strong-coupling regimes. The important concepts are presented, together with relevant, recent experimental results.