Charlie Ironside

Semiconductor Integrated Optics for Switching Light

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book covers the technology of switching or modulating light in semiconductor optical waveguides. Currently a key function for optical communications systems is the conversion of data from an electrical signal to an optical signal for transmission in very low loss optical fibres and the converse process of optical to electrical conversion the O/E/O data conversion. This conversion between electronic and photonic signals imposes an energy consumption overhead on optical communication systems. So many research workers have been attracted to ultrafast all-optical switching of data in different formats. As a way of introduction to all-optical switching in semiconductor waveguides the book covers the electro-optic effect, electroabsorption and electrorefraction; effects that can be used in semiconductor optical modulation devices. But the book focuses on all-optical switching using second and third order optical nonlinearities in AlGaAs optical waveguides. It covers a variety of device configurations including integrated nonlinear couplers and Mach-Zehnder interferometers. Further, it provides design software in suit of Mathematica notebooks that can be used to explore the device design.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: IOP Concise Physics
• Seitenzahl: 74
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 159g
• ISBN-13: 9781681745206
• ISBN-10: 1681745208
• Artikelnr.: 49224951

Autorenporträt

Professor Ironside has over 30 years' experience in semiconductor optoelectronics research and in particular microfabrication of semiconductor photonic components such as laser diodes for optical communications systems, optical sensing and optical metrology systems. He has published over 120 research journal publications and 200 conference papers and has won awards for transferring research knowledge for commercial exploitation.