Ga-stabilized surface 10
GaAs, bandstructure 78
GaAs, density of atoms 10
GaAs, electro-optic effect 262
GaAs, excitons in 258
GaAs, low temperature grown 346
GaAs, mobility 138
GaAsP bandgap 444
Gain compression 566
Gain energy curves 493
Gain guided laser 523
Gain in a material 208
Gain in a photoconductive detector 360
Gain in a phototransistor 380
Gain saturation in an optical amplifier 625
Gain switching 560
Gauge invariance 172
Ge APDs 371
Ge bandstructure 79
Generation rate for e-h pairs 342
Grating in a DFB laser 527
Gummel number for a bipolar transistor 701
Harmonic oscillator problem in quantum mechanics 687
HBTs, band tailoring and 701
HBTs, GaAs/AlGaAs 704
Heavily doped semiconductors 122
Heavy hole band 63
Helmhotz equation 689
Heterodyne detection 431
Heterostructure bandstructure 82
Heterostructures, motivations for 325
HgCdTe for long wavelength detectors 346
High field transport in GaAs 142
High field transport in Si 142
High frequency operation of a p-i-n detector 312
High frequency operation of an APD 375
High frequency operation of an LED 534
High frequency operation, laser 555
High impedence amplifier 423
Hole bands 62
Hole bands, HH-LH merger 94
Hole bands, splitting of 89
Hole masses 678
Hole masses, effect of strain 93 516
Hole transport 142
Holes in semiconductors 75
Homodyne detection 431
Human eye response 339
Ideal detector responsivity 343
Imaginary part of refractive index 581
Impact ionization 145
Impact ionization coefficients 147 684
Impact ionization in a p-n diode 310
InAs bandstructure 79
Index ellipsoid 260 711
Index ellipsoid and polarization 603
Index guided laser 525
Indirect semiconductors, absorption coefficient 194 337
Information content 649
InGaAs, APDs 371
InGaAs, excitons 258
Injection efficiency of a LED 447
InP bandstructure 79
InSb for long wavelength detectors 346
Insulator 61
Intensity fluctuation and laser noise 583
Intensity modulation 405
Inter-subband quantum well detector 383
Interband scattering by photons 186
Interband transitions in quantum wells 189
Interface roughness 15
Interfaces 15
Interstitial defects 16
Intrinsic carrier concentration 95
Inversion condition for a laser 209 491
Inversion symmetry 4
Ion beam milling 41
Ionized dopants 117
Ionized impurity scattering 133
Johnson noise 416 421
Joint density of states 188
Joyce — Dixon approximation 119 492
k-conservation rules 337
KDP, electro-optic effect 262
Kerr effect 261
Kinks in laser output 524
Kohn Luttinger formulation 65
Kohn Luttinger formulation in a quantum well 87
Kohn Luttinger formulation, reduction to a 2-band problem 108
Krammer — Kronig relation 177
Krammer — Kronig relation and electro optic effect 278
L-point 60
Lambertian source 458
Large signal modulation 554
Large signal switching of a laser 557
Large signal switching of a laser gain switching 560
Laser diode, absorption losses in a laser diode 496
Laser diode, cleaved coupled cavity 538
Laser diode, demands for an optical communication system 666
Laser diode, design issues 509
Laser diode, distributed Bragg reflector laser 534
Laser diode, distributed feedback laser 526
Laser diode, double heterostructure lasers 508
Laser diode, high speed performance 575
Laser diode, inversion condition 491
Laser diode, light output 497
Laser diode, microcavity laser 538
Laser diode, optical cavity 488
Laser diode, optical gain 491
Laser diode, peak mode 500
Laser diode, quantum well laser 508
Laser diode, quantum wire laser 518
Laser diode, spectral purity of 578
Laser diode, strained quantum well 514
Laser diode, surface emitting 534
Laser diode, temperature dependence 540
Laser diode, the need for 485
Laser diode, threshold condition 496
Laser diode, threshold current reduction 508
Laser diode, time response 575
Laser diode, transparency condition 496
Laser dynamics 554
Laser dynamics, catastrophic failure 575
Laser dynamics, equivalent circuit 576
Laser dynamics, extrinsic effects 575
Laser dynamics, laser heating 575
Laser dynamics, linewidth 585
Laser dynamics, parasitic effects 575
Laser dynamics, semi-insulating substrate 576
Laser power spectrum 584
Lasing modes 494
Lattice 3
Lattice constants of semiconductors 682
Lattice types 4
Law of mass action 98
Law of mass action, light current relation in laser 497
Light emitting diode (LED), advanced structures 460
Light emitting diode (LED), carrier injection and spontaneous emission 447
Light emitting diode (LED), comparison with a laser 485
Light emitting diode (LED), coupling to a fiber 456
Light emitting diode (LED), edge emitting 460
Light emitting diode (LED), emission rate 449
Light emitting diode (LED), external quantum efficiency 456
Light emitting diode (LED), Fresnel loss 456
Light emitting diode (LED), heterostructure 460 462
Light emitting diode (LED), injection efficiency 447
Light emitting diode (LED), internal quantum efficiency 445
Light emitting diode (LED), light-current relation 463
Light emitting diode (LED), materials for 442
Light emitting diode (LED), modulation bandwidth 469
| Light emitting diode (LED), output power 474
Light emitting diode (LED), radiative lifetime 450
Light emitting diode (LED), reliability 475
Light emitting diode (LED), spectral purity 465
Light emitting diode (LED), substrate availability 443
Light emitting diode (LED), superluminescent 464
Light emitting diode (LED), surface emitting 462
Light emitting diode (LED), temperature dependence of emission 471
Light emitting diode (LED), temporal response 465
Light hole band 63
Line defects 16
Linearly polarized light 603
Linewidth enhancement factor 581
Linewidth of DFB lasers 533 585 666
Linewidth, exciton homogeneous 254
Linewidth, exciton inhomogeneous 254
Linewidth, excitonic in quantum wells 257
Liquid crystal devices 609
Liquid crystal devices, rod like molecules 609
Liquid crystal devices, twist in 611
Liquid phase epitaxy 21
List of symbols 670
Lithography 32
Local area networks (LAN) 345
Local oscillator 432
Long wavelength detectors, HgCdTe 346
Long wavelength detectors, InSb 346
Long wavelength detectors, PbSe 346
Long wavelength detectors, PbTe 346
Low pass filter 433
Lucky electron in impact ionization 148
Mach Zender interferometer 277
Mask generation 36
Material dispersion effects in pulse propagation 632 658
Materials for detectors 346 348
Matrix element for scattering 128
Matrix element, momentum 67
Maximum bandwidth 569
Maximum bandwidth in quantum wires 569
Maxwell's equations 171
MBE 11 21 24
Mean free path 150
Metal 61
Metal-semiconductor detector, band profile 382
Metal-semiconductor detector, Schottky barrier 381
Metal-semiconductor detector, Semi-transparent metal 381
Microcavity laser 538
Miller indices 7
Mobility 137
Mobility in GaAs 680
Mobility in Ge 680
Mobility in Si 680
Mobility of electrons and holes 680
MOCVD 11 21 26
Mode hopping in a laser 543
Mode spacing in an optical cavity 488
MODFET 123
MODFET, sheet charge density 123
Modulation devices 599
Modulation doping 122
Modulation doping and carrier freeze out 122
Modulation doping and scattering 122
Modulation index 400
Modulation techniques, amplitude modulation 400
Modulation techniques, frequency modulation 401
Modulation techniques, phase modulation 405
Monte Carlo method 141
MSM detector, applications in OEIC 383
MSM detector, dark current 382
MSM detector, gain 382
MSM detector, interdigitated fingers 385
Multipath dispersion in an optical fiber 656
Multiplexing 649
Negative resistance due to excitonic absorption 619
Noise in a amplifier 423
Noise in a resistor 415
Noise in a transistor 416
Noise in an APD 411 424
Noise, equivalent power 408
Noise, flicker noise 418
Noise, Johnson noise 416
Noise, shot noise 406
Noise, thermal 416
Noise, transistor noise 421
Noise, voltage 416
Noise, white noise 416
Non-equilibrium distribution 416
Non-radiative recombination in a laser 503
Non-radiative recombination, Auger processes 214
Non-radiative recombination, capture cross section 211
Non-radiative recombination, Shockley, Read, Hall 213
Numerical aperture of an optical fiber 653
Ohm's law 138
Optical absorption 337
Optical amplification 622
Optical amplification, amplification of CW signals 624
Optical amplification, amplifier gain 624
Optical amplification, chirp of a pulse 631
Optical amplification, coherent signal 623
Optical amplification, cross saturation in WDM 627
Optical amplification, dispersion length 632
Optical amplification, fan out 623
Optical amplification, gain of signals 622
Optical amplification, gain saturation 625
Optical amplification, group velocity effects 632
Optical amplification, material dispersion 632
Optical amplification, output power 629
Optical amplification, pulse amplification 627
Optical amplification, pulse compression 632
Optical amplification, pulse distortion 628
Optical amplification, reduced time treatment 629
Optical amplification, saturation power 625
Optical amplification, spectral width 631
Optical amplification, spreading of a pulse 632
Optical amplification, transform limited pulse 632
Optical amplification, traveling wave amplifier 623
Optical cavity 488
Optical communication system 646
Optical computing 598
Optical confinement 489 708
Optical fibers, acceptance angle 458 653
Optical fibers, attenuation 662
Optical fibers, losses 652
Optical fibers, material 652
Optical fibers, material dispersion 658
Optical fibers, multipath dispersion 656
Optical fibers, numerical aperture 653
Optical fibers, structure and modes 652
Optical gain 491
Optical non-linearities 600
Optical phonon 131
Optical processing, challanges of 636
Optical switching 636
Optoelectronic integrated circuits (OEIC) 433 588
Ordinary index 603
P functions 58
p-i-n detector, antireflecting coating 364
p-i-n detector, design issues 365
p-i-n detector, efficiency 364
p-i-n detector, materials for 364
p-i-n detector, photocurrent 363
p-i-n detector, temporal response 366
p-n diode in forward bias 296
p-n diode in reverse bias 302
p-n diode, ac response 312
p-n diode, carrier injection 303
p-n diode, depletion width 293
p-n diode, diffusion capacitance 314
p-n diode, drift and diffusion current 288
p-n diode, electric field in a 292
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