Nonlinear optics in semiconductors. I (1999)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Volume editors, Elsa Garmire, Alan Kost.
• Other Names: Garmire, Elsa M, 1939-; Kost, Alan
• Contents: Front Cover; Nonlinear Optics in Semiconductors I; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Chapter 1. Resonant Optical Nonlinearities in Semiconductors; I. Introduction; II. Survey of Nonlinear Optical Mechanisms; III. Modeling And Measuring Optical Nonlinearity; IV. Resonant Optical Nonlinearity in GaAs Quantum Wells; V. Summary of Band-Filling Nonlinearities; VI. Figure of Merit; VII. Optical Nonlinearity From Free Carrier Absorption and Refraction; VIII. Optothermal Optical Nonlinearities; IX. All-Optical Switching; X. Summary and Conclusions. List of Abbreviations and AcronymsReferences; Chapter 2. Optical Nonlinearities in Semiconductors Enhanced by Carrier Transport; List of Acronyms; I. Introduction; II. Experimental Results on Optical Nonlinearities Influenced by Carrier Transport; III. Field Dependence of The Optical Properties of Semiconductors; IV. Experimental Configurations; V. Characteristics of Experimental Devices That Utilize Self-Modulation; References; Chapter 3. Ultrafast Transient Nonlinear Optical Processes in Semiconductors; I. Introduction; II. Near-Band-Gap Excitations; III. Time Scales and Dynamic Trends. IV. A Purely Coherent Process Involving Only Virtual Electron-Hole Pairs: The Excitonic Optical Stark EffectV. Fundamentals of Two-particle Correlation Effects Involving Real Electron-Hole Pairs; VI. Applications: Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Electronic States in Heterostructures; VII. Fundamentals of Four-Particle Correlation Effects Involving Real Electron-Hole Pairs; VIII. Dynamics in The Quantum Kinetics Regime; IX. Conclusion; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; References; Chapter 4. Optical Nonlinearities in The Transparency Region of Bulk Semiconductors; I. Introduction. II. BackgroundIII. Theory of Bound-Electronic Nonlinearities: Two-Band Model; IV. Bound-Electronic Optical Nonlinearities in Active Semiconductors; V. Free-Carrier Nonlinearities; VI. Experimental Methods; VII. Applications; VIII. Conclusion; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; References; Chapter 5. Photorefractivity in Semiconductors; I. Introduction; II. Space-Charge Grating Formation; III. Beam Coupling; II. Four-Wave Mixing; V. Enhanced Wave-Mixing Techniques; VI. Bulk Semiconductors; VII. Multiple Quantum Wells; VIII. Selected Applications; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; References.
• Publisher Details: San Diego : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 426 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 535/.2; Nonlinear optics; Semiconductors -- Optical properties; Nonlinear optics; Semiconductors; SCIENCE -- Physics -- Optics & Light; Nonlinear optics; Semiconductors -- Optical properties; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080864563; 0080864562; 0127521674; 9780127521671
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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