, electro-optic effect 262
, electro-optic effect 262
interface 15
-point 60
-valley occupation 144
Absorption coefficient 175 685
Absorption coefficient for indirect semiconductors 194
Absorption coefficient in bulk 191
Absorption coefficient in quantum wells 191
Absorption coefficients of materials 340
Absorption losses in a laser diode 496
Absorption rates for photons 188
Acceptance angle of an optical fiber 458 653
Acceptors 114
Acoustic phonon 131
Acoustic phonon scattering 132
Advanced devices, detectors 387
Advanced devices, lasers 509
Advanced devices, LED 460
Advanced laser structures 587
AlAs bandstructure 79
AlGaAs bandgap 444
All optical modulation 600
Alloys, bandgaps of 679
Alloys, bandstructures of 81
Alloys, lattice constant 81
Amorphous Si, localized states 354
Amorphous Si, mobility in 354
Amorphous Si, optical absorption 198
Amorphous Si, solar cells 354
Amplification of CW signals 624
Amplifier gain 624
Amplifier noise 423
Amplifier, high impedence 423
Amplifier, transimpedence 423
Amplitude modulation 400
Amplitude modulation, modulation index 400
Amplitude modulation, side bands 401
amplitude shift keying, ASK 405
Antisite defects 16
As-stabilized surface 10
Associative memory 639
Atomic level notation 55
Atomic levels in semiconductors 56
Attenuation of signals 662
Auger effects 559
Auger processes 214
Auger processes in LDs 504
Auger processes in LEDs 472
Auger processes, Auger coefficient 214 686
Auger processes, CCHS 214
Auger processes, CHHS 214
Auger processes, threshold condition 217
Avalanche breakdown 145
Avalanche breakdown fields 681
Avalanche photodetector, avalanche region 371
Avalanche photodetector, bandwidth 375
Avalanche photodetector, carrier multiplication 374 412
Avalanche photodetector, design issues 371
Avalanche photodetector, excess noise factor 411
Avalanche photodetector, heat sinking 371
Avalanche photodetector, noise 411 424
Avalanche photodetector, reach-through structure 371
Avalanche photodetector, receiver sensitivity 429
Avogadro's number 2
Bandgap discontinuity 83
Bandgap discontinuity in GaAs/AlAs 83
Bandgap narrowing by doping 122
Bandgap renormalization 226 504
Bandgaps of alloys 679
Bandgaps of semiconductors 677
Bandstructure of AlAs 79
Bandstructure of GaAs 78
Bandstructure of Ge 79
Bandstructure of heterostructures 82
Bandstructure of InAs 79
Bandstructure of InP 79
Bandstructure of quantum wells 85
Bandstructure of Si 66 77
Bandstructure, strain effects 90
Bandstructure, temperature variation of 80 677
Bandstructures of alloys 80
Bandstructures of alloys, bowing parameter 80
Basis of a crystal structure 3
Bipolar transistor, base current 701
Bipolar transistor, collector current 701
Bipolar transistor, current flow 700
Bipolar transistor, current gain 701
Bipolar transistor, current voltage relations 701
Bipolar transistor, emitter current 699
Bipolar transistor, emitter efficiency 701
bit error rate (BER) 426
Black body radiation 408
Bloch oscillations 126
Bloch theorem 54
Blue light emission 443
Body-centered cubic 5
Boltzmann approximation 96
Bravais lattice 5
Breakdown electric field 681
Bridgeman technique 19
Brillouin zone 60
Broadening function for gain 493
Built-in potential, p-n diode 289
Built-in strain 29
Burn-in period for LEDs 475
Camel diode 390
Capture cross-section 211
Carrier density 116 118
Carrier distribution 568
Carrier freeze out 120
Carrier thermalization 152
Carrier thermalization in 0D 159
Carrier thermalization in 1D 159
Carrier thermalization in 2D 156
Carrier thermalization in 3D 155
Catastrophic failure of a laser 575
CCHS Auger process 214
Challenges in optical switching 636
CHHS Auger process 214
Chirp and pulse propagation 633
Chirp in a laser 586
Chirp of a pulse 631
Circularly polarized light 603
Cleaved coupled cavity 538
Cleaved coupled cavity, constructive feedback 538
Cleaved coupled cavity, mode spacing 538
Cleaving of a Fabry — Perot laser 522
Coherent communication needs 666
Coherent detection 405 431
Compressive strain 92
Computer Aided Design 37
Conduction band 61
Conductivity 138
Conductivity effective mass 114
Constructive feedback in a cleaved coupled cavity laser 538
Continuity equations 221
Coulombic interaction 237
Coupled mode treatment of DFB lasers 528
Coupling coefficient of guides in directional couplers 614
Creation operator 180 688
Critical breakdown field 681
Critical thickness 31
Critical thickness of InGaAs 31
Cross saturation in WDM 627
Crystal growth cont'd, MBE 21 24
Crystal growth cont'd, MOCVD 21 26
Crystal growth cont'd, Vapor phase epitaxy 22
Crystal growth, Bridgeman technique 19
Crystal growth, bulk 18
| Crystal growth, Czochralsky technique 19
Crystal growth, Epitaxial 21
Crystal growth, Liquid phase epitaxy 21
Crystal momentum 59
Cutoff frequency of lasers 566
Cutoff wavelength 338
Czochralsky technique 19
Deep levels 99
Defects in a semiconductor 16 99
Deformation potentials 91 131 682
Degenerate condition 121
Density of states for excitons 243
Density of states in a 1-Dimensional system 71
Density of states in a 2-Dimensional system 71
Density of states in a 3-Dimensional system 69
Density of states mass 74
Destruction operator 180 688
Detectivity 409
Detectors, advanced 390
Detectors, avalanche 369
Detectors, comparison of 420
Detectors, current-voltage relation 347
Detectors, detectivity 409
Detectors, Materials for 346 348
Detectors, Metal semiconductor 382
Detectors, MSM 382
Detectors, noise 405
Detectors, p-i-n 362
Detectors, photoconductive 358
Detectors, phototransistor 378
Detectors, quantum well inter-subband 383
Detectors, specific detectivity 409
Diamond structure 6
Differential gain peak 581
Diffusion 149
Diffusion coefficient 150
diffusion length 221
Digital optical computer 638
Digital receiver sensitivity 425
Direct and external modulation 602
Directional couplers 613
Directional couplers, coupling coefficient of guides 614
Directional couplers, electro-optic effect 613
Directional couplers, phase matched guides 614
Directional couplers, push pull 616
Directional couplers, signal routing 613
Dislocation bending 31
Dislocations 16 30
Dispersion effects in pulse propagation 632 658
Dispersion length in an optical amplifier 632
Distributed Bragg reflector laser 534
Distributed feedback laser, Bragg frequency 529
Distributed feedback laser, cost issues 527
Distributed feedback laser, coupled mode treatment 528
Distributed feedback laser, grating in 527
Distributed feedback laser, linewidth 533 585 666
Distributed feedback laser, mode spacing 526
Distributed feedback laser, side mode suppression 531
Distribution functions, Fermi function 95
Distribution functions, non-equilibrium 416
Distribution functions, quasi-Fermi 160
Donor 114
Donor energy level 115
Doping 114
Double heterostructure lasers 508
Drift diffusion effect 569
Drift velocity 137
Drift velocity saturation 142
Dynamics of a laser 554
E-beam lithography 37
Edge emitting 460
Effective density of states 96
effective mass 66
Effective masses of semiconductors 678
Eigenvalue method 691
Einstein relation 150
Electro-absorption modulator 606
Electro-optic effect 259
Electro-optic effect in directional couplers 613
Electro-optic modulation 602
Electro-optic tensor 261
Electron phonon scattering 130
Electron photon interaction 178
Electron photon scattering 180
Ellipsoid, constant energy 66
Emission rate in a LED 449
Epitaxial crystal growth 21
Epitaxial regrowth 42 435
Equation of motion 59
Equation of motion for holes 76
Equivalent circuit of a laser 577
Equivalent circuit of a photoconductive detector 359
Equivalent circuit of a photodiode 351
Equivalent circuit of a receiver amplifier 419
Erbium doped fiber amplifier 634
Erbium doped fiber amplifier, levels in 635
Erbium doped fiber amplifier, optical pumping of 634
Etching 38
Etching, ion beam milling 41
Etching, plasma 40
Etching, reactive ion beam 40
Etching, wet chemical 38
Excess noise factor in APDs 411
Exciton based detector 390
Excitonic devices reliability 637
Excitons in lasers 504
Excitons in quantum wells 247
Excitons in sub 2D systems 278
Excitons, absorption 242
Excitons, cont'd, spectra in GaAs 246
Excitons, cont'd, under longitudinal field 266
Excitons, cont'd, under transverse field 267
Excitons, cont'd, wavefunction 241
Excitons, density of states 243
Excitons, dispersion relation 238
Excitons, effect of carrier density 252
Excitons, energy in bulk 237
Excitons, enhancement in absorption 244
Excitons, Frenkel 236
Excitons, Hamiltonian 237
Excitons, linewidth 254
Excitons, Mott 236
Excitons, polarization dependence 271
Excitons, quenching 273
Excitons, refractive index change 276
Extinction ratio 428
Extraordinary index 603
Extrinsic detectors 340
Extrinsic limits on lasers 556
Fabry — Perot cavity 488 521
Fabry — Perot cavity, cleaving of 522
Fabry — Perot cavity, mode spacing in 488
Fabry — Perot cavity, performance issues in 521
Face-centered cubic 6
Fermi distribution function 95
Fermi energy 96
Fermi Golden Rule 128 689
Fermi half integral 119
Fermi level at equilibrium 96
Fermi level in a 2D system 124
Filled bands 61
Flicker noise 418
Flux of atoms in vapor phase growth 22
Forbidden energy regions 55
Force constants 90
Franz — Keldysh effect 265
Frequency division multiplexing, FDM 649
Frequency modulation 401
Frequency modulation, Bessel functions 403
Frequency shift keying, FSK 405
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