Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering #218: Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits

* Over 270 illustrations

* Extensive appendices that provide both review and advanced material, as well as details of derivations

* Consistent notation throughout all chapters and appendices that allows for a self-contained treatment and varied levels of study

* A series of design examples of relatively complex photonic integrated circuits

* Example problems and a toolbox of techniques to apply to new advanced details as they arise

* Accurate and consistent calculations that illustrate analysis techniques, while agreeing with experimental data

* Complete coverage of matrix multiplication techniques which are more exact, general, and easier to comprehend for modern-day students

*An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department.

Owing to their small size and mass-producibility, high efficiency, and amazing useful life of hundreds of years, diode lasers remain essential in data transmission and data storage applications and consumer products, while appearing in new applications, like medical imaging and remote sensing. This new edition of Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits is an in-depth and fully up-to-date resource for students in electrical engineering and applied physics as well as professional engineers and researchers in optoelectronics and related fields.

Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits, Second Edition features:

• Expanded treatment of GaN-based materials, DFBs and VCSELs, quantum dots, mode and injection locking, tunable lasers and new photonic IC technology

• Many worked examples throughout that illustrate how to apply the principles and theory discussed

• Online access to important tools such as BPM and S and T matrix computation code, DFB laser code, mode solving code, and more

• Study problems and solutions at the end of each chapter

• Consistent notation throughout all chapters and appendices that allow for self-contained treatment and varied levels of study

Complete with extensive appendices that provide review and advanced material as well as details of derivations, Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits, Second Edition is an excellent resource for anyone studying or working in the field.

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.

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 Circuits.

8.1 Introduction.

8.2 Tunable Lasers and Laser-Modulators with In-Line Grating Reflectors.

8.3 PICs using Directional Couplers for Output Coupling and Signal Combining.

8.4 PICs using Codirectionally Coupled Filters.

8.5 Numerical Techniques for Analyzing PICs.

Appendices.

1. Review of Elementary Solid-State Physics.

2. Relationships between Fermi Energy and Carrier Density and Leakage.

3. Introduction to Optical Waveguiding in Simple Double-Heterostructures.

4. Density of Optical Modes, Blackbody Radiation, and Spontaneous Emission Factor.

5. Modal Gain, Modal Lose, and Confinement Factors.

6. Einstein’s Approach to Gain and Spontaneous Emission.

7. Periodic Structures and the Transmission Matrix.

8. Electronic States in Semiconductors.

9. Fermi’s Golden Rule.

10. Transition Matrix Element.

11. Strained Bandgaps.

12. Threshold Energy for Auger Processes.

13. Langevin Noise.

14. Derivation Details for Perturbation Formulas.

15. The Electro-Optic Effect.

16. Solution of Finite Difference Problems.

17. Optimizing Laser Cavity Designs.

Index.