p-n diode, generation-recombination current 308
p-n diode, ideality factor 308
p-n diode, junction capacitance 313
p-n diode, minority and majority current 303
p-n diode, narrow diode 303
p-n diode, Poisson equation in a 291
p-n diode, recombination rate due to traps 308
p-n diode, saturation current 302
p-n diode, tunneling 311
p-n diode, under high injection 309
Packing density of crystals 47
Parabolic bands 66
Parasitic effects in a laser 575
PbSe for long wavelength detectors 346
PbTe for long wavelength detectors 346
PCM, cont'd, output distortion 573
PCM, cont'd, spectral output 574
Peak mode of a laser 500
Peak mode of a laser, shift in 503
Periodic potential 54
Periodicity of a crystal 3
Personick integral 421
Phase fluctuation 583
Phase matched guides in directional couplers 614
Phase rate equation 583
Phase retardation due to electro-optic effect 263
Phonon emission 153
Phonon occupation 130
Phonon scattering 130
Photoconductive detector 358
Photoconductive detector, dark conductivity 358
Photoconductive detector, equivalent circuit 359
Photoconductive detector, gain in a 360
Photoconductive detector, transit time 360
Photoconductive mode of a detector 351
Photocurrent in a p-i-n detector 363
Photocurrent in a p-n diode 350
Photocurrent, due to QCSE 617
Photon density of states 192 571
Photon density tailoring 540
Photon emission 192 499
Photon field 581
Photon lifetime 499 566
Photon occupation 174 486
Photoresist, coating 34
Photoresist, negative 34
Photoresist, positive 34
Phototransistor, frequency response 380
Phototransistor, gain 380
Phototransistor, HBT 378
Phototransistor, light absorbed 379
Phototransistor, quantum efficiency 378
Photovoltaic mode 351
Planar Defects 17
Planck's theory 408
Plasma etching 40
Pockel effect 261
Point defects 16
Poisson distribution 406
Poisson equation in a p-n diode 291
Polar optical phonon scattering 132
Polarization of light in switching 603
Polarization of light selection rules 188
Power output from an amplifier 629
Power output of a LED 474
Poynting vector 174
Preamplifier 422
Preamplifier noise 423
Primitive unit cell 3
Primitive vectors 3
Principal dielecric constants 260 711
Programmable spatial light modulator 608
Pulse code modulation, PCM 554 572
Pulse compression 632
Pulse propagation and chirp 633
Q-factor of a cavity 579
Q-factor of a cavity, laser linewidth factors 580
Quantum confined Stark effect, QCSE 265 604 617
Quantum confined Stark effect, QCSE, based devices 617
Quantum confined Stark effect, QCSE, BRAQWET device 606
Quantum confined Stark effect, QCSE, electro-absorption modulator 606
Quantum confined Stark effect, QCSE, exciton absorption 605
Quantum confined Stark effect, QCSE, modulation depth 608
Quantum confined Stark effect, QCSE, modulator response 608
Quantum confined Stark effect, QCSE, multi-quantum well HBT 620
Quantum confined Stark effect, QCSE, negative resistance 619
Quantum confined Stark effect, QCSE, normally OFF modulator 606
Quantum confined Stark effect, QCSE, normally ON modulator 606
Quantum confined Stark effect, QCSE, self electro-optic device 619
Quantum confined Stark effect, QCSE, shift in exciton peak 606
Quantum efficiency 342
Quantum efficiency of a p-i-n detector 364
Quantum efficiency of an LED 456
Quantum well APDs 388
Quantum well bandstructure 85
Quantum well bandstructure, effective bandgap of a 86
Quantum well bandstructure, energy bands 86
Quantum well inter-subband detector, detection process 386
Quantum well inter-subband detector, polarization selection 386
Quantum well lasers 508
Quantum well lasers, strained 514
quantum well structure 11 21
Quantum well, absorption coefficient 191
Quantum well, exciton linewidth 257
Quantum well, excitonic effects 247 253
Quantum well, intraband absorption 202
Quantum wire lasers 518
Quasi-Fermi levels 160 492
Radiative lifetime under inversion 206 451
Radiative lifetime under strong injection 206 451
Radiative lifetime under weak injection 206 451
radiative recombination 205
Radiative recombination time in GaAs 207
Random alloy 81
Rate equations for a laser 499 558
Reach-through structure 371
Real part of refractive index 581
Receiver amplifier 419
Receiver sensitivity 425 428
Reflection coefficients for vertical incident light 176
Refractive index 175
Refractive index, change due to excitons 276
Refractive index, complex 175
Regrowth issues in OEICs 42
Regrowth, epitaxial 42 525
Relaxation oscillations 558
Reliability of LEDs 475
Renormalization of bandgap 226 504
Responsivity 342
RHEED 26
| Richardson constant 327
S functions 58
Saturation velocity 142
Scattering from lattice vibrations 130
Scattering of electrons 126
Scattering potential 128
Scattering time 137
Schottky barrier diode 316
Schottky barrier diode, capacitance 323
Schottky barrier diode, current flow 318
Schottky barrier diode, Richardson constant 321
Schottky barrier diode, small signal response 323
Schottky barrier diode, thermionic emission 320
Schrodinger equation 54
Selection rules 188
Self electro-optic device, SEED 619
Semi-insulating substrate 20
Semiconductor 61
Shot noise 406
Shot noise current 408
Si bandstructure 66 77
Si effective masses 77
Si, density of atoms 10
Si, mobility 138
SiC for LEDs 443
Side mode suppression in DFB lasers 531
Signal-to-noise ratio 406
Simple cubic 5
Small signal modulation of lasers, cont'd, stimulated recombination time 562
Small signal modulation of lasers, cont'd, thermalization times 562
Small signal modulation of lasers, cutoff frequency 566
Small signal modulation of lasers, damping function 564
Small signal modulation of lasers, dependence on Auger effects 565
Small signal modulation of lasers, dependence on differential gain 566
Small signal modulation of lasers, dependence on injection current 565
Small signal modulation of lasers, dependence on photon lifetime 566
Small signal modulation of lasers, electron devices versus a laser 568
Small signal modulation of lasers, electron injection and thermalization 562
Small signal modulation of lasers, gain compression coefficient 568
Small signal modulation of lasers, gain compression effects 566
Small signal modulation of lasers, resonant frequency 564
Small signal modulation of lasers, small signal response function 564
Solar cell, amorphous Si 354
Solar cell, conversion efficiency 352
Solar cell, fill factor 352
Solar cell, open circuit voltage 352
Solar cell, short circuit current 352
Solar spectrum 353
Soliton communication system 661
Specific detectivity 409 501
Spectra under modulation 585
Spectral output of lasers 578
Spectral output of lasers, laser linewidth 578
Spectral output of lasers, laser linewidth requirements 579 666
Spectral output of lasers, optical cavity dependence 578
Spectral purity of a LED 465
Spin coating 34
Spontaneous emission 486 688
Spontaneous emission and noise 584
Spontaneous emission factor 501
Stimulated emission 486 688
Stimulated emission time 571
Strain and bandstructure modification 90 93
Strain, advantages in lasers 514
Strained epitaxy, motivations 28 32
Strained heteroepitaxy 28
Strained heteroepitaxy, dislocations 31
Strained InGaAs 91
Strained quantum well lasers, Auger rates 517
Strained quantum well lasers, bandgap tunability 514
Strained quantum well lasers, built-in strain 514
Strained quantum well lasers, effective mass reduction 516
Strained quantum well lasers, laser reliability 517
Strained quantum well lasers, reduced threshold current 514
Subbands 86
Substrates for detectors 345
Superlattices 11
Superluminoscent LED 464
Surface emitting laser 534
Surface emitting laser, arrays 535
Surface emitting laser, charge injection difficulty 535
Surface emitting laser, reflectivity 535
Surface emitting LED 462
Surfaces 13
Surfaces reconstruction 13
TE polarized light 558
TE polarized light absorption 271 277 512
Temperature dependence of a laser output 540
Temperature dependence of a LED output 471
Temperature dependence of bandgap 80 677
Temporal response of a laser 554
Temporal response of an LED 469
Tensile strain 92
Thermal noise 416
Thermionic current 320
Threshold condition for a laser 496
Threshold condition for Auger processes 217
Time delay 557
TM polarized light 558
TM polarized light absorption 271 277 512
Transconductance 421
Transform limited pulse 632
Transimpedence amplifier 423
Transistor noise 421 423
Transmission capacity of some transmission approaches 648
Transport in semiconductors 126
Traveling wave amplifier 623
Vacancies 16
Valence band 61
Valence band in quantum wells 87
Valence band states 63
Vapor phase epitaxy 22
Variational method 248
Vector potential 172
Vector-matrix architecture 608
Vegard's law 81
Velocity-field relations 136 683
Virtual crystal approximation 81
Wave equation 172
Wave propagation in crystals 710
Waveguide modes 706
Wavelength division multiplexing, WDM 649
Wavelength selective detection 390
Wet chemical etching 38
White noise 416
Wurtzite structure 49
X-point 60
Zener diode 311
zero point energy 130
Zinc blende structure 6
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