Synopses & Reviews
This book gives an introduction to the optical properties of solids, including many new topics that have not been previously covered in other solid state texts at this level. The fundamental principles of absorption, reflection, luminescence and light scattering are discussed for a wide range
of materials, including crystalline insulators and semiconductors, glasses, metals, and molecular materials. Classical and quantum models are used where appropriate along with recent experimental data. Examples include semiconductor quantum wells, organic semiconductors, vibronic solid state lasers,
and nonlinear optics.
Review
"[A] useful and sound introduction to the subject."--Materials World
Review
"Fox's book provides an introduction to the subject for a senior-level undergraduate or a beginning graduate course aimed at students who will use or design equipment that depends on modern optical materials. . . . Fox, on the other hand, provides many well-selected examples, showing graphs of the actual dielectric functions associated with solids of technological intent. . . . Fox provides all that one could ask for in an undergraduate text. He describes many of the key devices for the technologies, including laser media based on Ti:sapphire (used for short pulses), gallium arsenide (for high continuous power), and Er:glass (for fiber-optics amplifiers. . . . While straightforward, Fox's problems offer an excellent way for the reader to test his understanding of the materials presented. . . . On the whole, fox has succeeded in offering a good, compact, senior-level presentation of the optical properties of solids." -- American Journal of Physics
"[A] useful and sound introduction to the subject."--Materials World
Synopsis
This book gives an introduction to the optical properties of solids, including many new topics that have not been previously covered in other solid state texts at this level. The fundamental principles of absorption, reflection, luminescence and light scattering are discussed for a wide range of materials, including crystalline insulators and semiconductors, glasses, metals, and molecular materials. Classical and quantum models are used where appropriate along with recent experimental data. Examples include semiconductor quantum wells, organic semiconductors, vibronic solid state lasers, and nonlinear optics.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Classical propagation
3. Interband absorption
4. Excitons
5. Luminescence
6. Semiconductor quantum wells
7. Free electrons
8. Molecular materials
9. Luminescence centres
10. Phonons
11. Nonlinear optics
Appendix A: Electromagnetism in dielectrics
Appendix B: Quantom theory of redaitive absorption and emission
Appendix C: Band Theory
Appendix D: Semiconductor p-i-n diodes
Solutions to Exercises
Bibliography
Symbols
Index