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519
Index
AAbsorption, 43
coefficient, 44, 372graph vs. wavelength, 373
indirect, 374lattice, 145
Acceptance angle, fibers, 117Acceptors in semiconductors, 189Acousto-optic effect, 476
figure of merit and table, 481Acousto-optic modulator, 477, 481
Bragg regime and diffraction, 479, 495Raman–Nath regime, 477
Active Matrix Array, 417–418Active pixel sensor, 418Air mass, 426Airy disk, 62
angular radius, 62Airy, George, 58, 91Airy rings, 58, 59, 61Alloys, semiconductors
III-V alloys, 237, 257III-V bandgap diagram, 155III-V ternary alloys, 237
Amorphous structure broadening, 305Amplified spontaneous emission (ASE),
285, 287Amplifier, see Optical amplifierAnisotropy, optical, 11, 446, 447
refractive index, 11, 445table of crystals, 446
Antireflection coating (AR), 39–40, 365, 421
Argon-ion laser, 359Attenuation, 43
coefficient, 43, 143optical fibers and dB, 143–151table for fibers, 147vs. bend radius, 150
Avalanche, 387breakdown voltage, 388multiplication factor, 388noise, 414
Avalanche photodiode (APD), 386absorption region in APD, 393guard ring, 388internal gain, 388noise, 414photogeneration, 393primary photocurrent, 388, 390principle, 401responsivity of InGaAs, 390separate absorption
and multiplication (SAM), 393–395grading and multiplication (SAGM), 393
Si reach-through, 386silicon, 390superlattice, 395
BBandgap, energy gap, 182
III-V bandgap diagram, 257Bandwidth, 130
optical, electrical, 134–135Bandwidth theorem, 49Bardeen, John, 178Bayer color image sensor, 417Beam
circular cross-section, 176diameter, 7displacement, see Lateral displacement
of lightdivergence, 8Gaussian, 62–63, 289, 292light, 6self-focused, 496splitter cube, 35
Becker, P. C., 276, 463Bending losses, 148Bennett, William Jr., 290Biaxial crystals, 446Birefringence, 445
calcite, 450circular, 456induced, 464quartz, 453
Birefringentcircularly, media, 458crystal, 445optical devices, 452prisms, 456retarding plates, 452
Bit rate, 130, 135capacity, 130intersymbol interference, 131nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ), 135return-to-zero (RZ), 131
Black body radiation law, 271Bloch wave in a crystal, 78, 195Boundary conditions, electromagnetism, 26, 27Bragg angle, 479Bragg diffraction condition, 67, 260, 285, 495Bragg fibers, 159–160
gratings and sensors, 163–167Bragg reflector, 41Bragg wavelength, 163, 339Bragg, William Lawrence, 65, 67Brewster angle, 29, 30
reflection and transmission, 37–38Brewster, David, 29Brewster window, 289, 303Broadening
amorphous structure, 305collision, 304homogeneous, 304inhomogeneous, 305lifetime, 304
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520 Index
Broadening (continued)optical gain curve, 303pressure, 304
Burrus device, 247
CCalcite, 446, 450
principal section, 450rhomb, 450specific rotary power, 457
Carrier confinement, 315Cauchy equation and diamond, 14Cavity lifetime, 300–301, 337Centrosymmetric crystals, 463Charge-coupled device (CCD), 419–421
Frame architecture, 420–421full frame architecture, 420–421Interline transfer architecture, 420–421sensor, 416
Chirp, chirping, 158, 496Chromatic dispersion, 125–126Cladding, 95
attenuation, 102layers, 247
Coefficient of index grading, 137Coherence
length, 48mutual temporal, 50perfect, 47spatial, 47, 50temporal, 47time, 48
Collision broadening, 304Compensation doping, 190Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)
sensor, 416, 417Complex propagation constant, 44Complex refractive index, 45
of InP, 46–47Complex relative permittivity, 44Conduction band (CB), 182, 196
electron concentration, 188Conductivity, semiconductors, 188Confining layers, 238, 247Conjugate image, 356Constructive interference, 52Coupled waveguides, 473Coupling coefficient, 165Cross-phase modulation, 158Crystal momentum, 196Current-Voltage Convention, 369–370
dDegenerate semiconductor, 191Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), 156
nonlinear effects, 157–159Density of states (DOS), 180
effective, 185Depletion region (layer), 199, 365
capacitance, 211, 380Depth of focus, 8
Destructive interference, 52Desurvire E., 276Detectivity, 411Dichroism, 451Dielectric mirrors, 40, 42, 344Diffraction, 58
Fraunhofer, 58, 59Fresnel, 58diagram, 59order, 339pattern, 58
circular aperture, 62rectangular aperture, 61single slit, 60
principles, 58Diffraction grating, 64
blazed (echelette), 67reflection, 65transmission, 65
Diffraction grating equation, 65single slit, 61
Diffusion (storage) capacitance, 214Diffusion current, 204Diffusion flux, 203Diffusion length, 203Diode equation, 208Diode ideality factor, 208Direct recombination, 215Dispersion, 125, 135
bandwidth relations, 135chromatic, 140, 162coefficients, 140diagram, 104graph of v vs. b, 106intermode, intermodal, 105, 110intramode, intramodal, 106material, 107, 119, 124, 171
coefficient, 120graph vs. wavelength, 121
modal, 104, 105polarization mode, 123profile, 123, 172profile-coefficient, 103relation, 12single mode fiber, 119table, 128total, 121, 125vs. wavelength, 121, 125, 127
Dispersive medium, 16Distributed Bragg reflector, 165, 241, 338, 344Donors in semiconductors, 190Doppler broadened linewidth, 291, 293Doppler effect, 290Doppler shift, 480Double-heterostructure (DH), 226
active layer, 315–316buried, 318contacting layer, 317device, 315
Drift mobility, 188, 381Drift velocity, 255, 381–382
graph vs. field, 382
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Index 521
eEDFA, see Erbium doped fiber amplifierEffective density of states, 185, 186Effective mass, 183Efficiency
detector, 375fiber coupling efficiency, 261He-Ne laser, 290laser diode external power, 327laser diode slope, 327optical amplifier, 279quantum efficiency, 327external, 324, 376external differential, 327internal, 261, 328
Einstein coefficients, 270, 271E vs. k diagrams, 194
direct bandgap, 196indirect bandgap, 197
Electrical bandwidth of fibers, 130, 133, 253Electromagnetic (EM) wave, see WaveElectron affinity, 182Electron ionization coefficient, 391–392Electro-optic effects, 462
Kerr, 469linear, Pockels, 463
Energy band, 179, 180Energy band diagram, 180, 192, 367, 369
field applied, 192GaAs laser, 361heterojunction, 226, 317pn junction, 220
Energy level, 179long-lived, 277
Epitaxial growth, 238Erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA), 276, 283
characteristics, efficiency and gain saturation, 280energy diagram, 277gain-flattened, 284–287
Excess carrier distribution, 215External photocurrent, 370–372
time spread, 372External quantum efficiency (EQE), 242Extinction coefficient, 45Extraction efficiency (EE), 243Extraordinary wave, 447Extrinsic semiconductors, see Semiconductors
FFabry, Charles, 53Fabry–Perot interferometer, 68, 69Fabry–Perot laser amplifier, 348Fabry–Perot optical resonator, 54, 292
transmitted light, 56Fall time, 253Faraday effect (rotation), 483, 495Faraday, Michael, 107Fermi–Dirac function, 179, 181, 184, 228, 313Fermi energy, 179, 187Fermi level, 185, 186Fiber, see Optical fibers
Fiber Bragg grating (FBG), 163Fill factor (FF), 424; see also Solar cellFinesse, 56First Brillouin zone, 78Flat-band voltage, see Reach-trough voltageFour-level laser system, 269–270Four photon mixing, 157Franken, Peter A., 486Franck–Condon principle, 249Fraunhofer, Joseph, 59Free carrier absorption, 255Free spectral range, 54Fresnel, Augustin Jean, 1Fresnel prism, 492Fresnel’s equations, 26, 27, 88Fresnel’s optical indicatrix, 447Full width at half maximum, see FWHMFull width at half power, see FWHPFWHM, 131
of a gas laser, 291FWHP, 131
GGabor, Dennis, 354Gain coefficient in Nd3+ doped glass fiber, 275Gain saturation, 282Gaussian beam, 21, 83, 292, 302
power and irradiance, 21Gaussian broadening, 305Gaussian dispersion, 134–135Gaussian pulse, 133Glan–Focault prism, 492Glass preform, 154Goos Haenchen phase shift, 88Graded index fiber, 136–141; see also Optical fiber
dispersion and bit rate, 141properties – table, 140
Graded index (GRIN) rod lens, 135, 139, 248Group delay, 120Group index, 14
graph vs. wavelength, 15Group velocity, 15, 104, 114–115, 169
HHalf-wave plate retarder, 453
quartz, 453Half-wave voltage, 466Helical ray path, 108, 137Helium-Neon laser, 287, 299, 301
characteristics – table, 358efficiency, 290energy diagram, 288, 358modes, 291principle of operation, 288
Herriott, Donald, 290Heterojunction, 222
photodiodes, 393phototransistor, 402
Heterostructure, 225, 226device, 226, 245, 317, 321, 348
High (strong) injection, 214–216, 256
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522 Index
Hole, 183diffusion current, 203diffusion length, 203ionization coefficient, 391
Holey fiber, 160; see also Photonic crystal fiberHologram, 354Holography, 354, 356Homogeneous broadening, 304Homojunction, 224, 313Huygens, Christiaan, 440Huygens-Fresnel principle, 59–60
IImage sensors, 415–421
pixels, 415Impact-ionization, 387Index matching, 487Induced transition, see Stimulated emissionInGaAsP on InP substrate, 319Inhomogeneous broadening, 305Injection, 201
of excess minority carriers, 201pumping, 313strong, 215weak, 215
Instantaneous irradiance (intensity), 19Integrated optics, 470Intensity of light, 21, 32Interference, 51
incoherent, 73Interference fringes, 71Interferometers, 68–70Internal quantum efficiency (IQE), 242Intersymbol interference, 131Intrinsic concentration ni, 186, 189Intrinsic semiconductors, see SemiconductorsIrradiance, 18, 19
reflected light, 32Isoelectronic impurities, 237Isotropic, 11
JJavan, Ali, 290Jones matrices, 490Jones units, 411Jones vector, 490
KKao, Charles, 94Kerr coefficients – table, 469Kerr effect, 468–470Kerr effect modulator, 470Kerr, John, 462Kramers-Kronig relations, 46
LLASER, 265, 266–269; see also Laser diode
active medium, 289active region, 312, 318amplifiers, 348distributed Bragg reflection (DBR), 338–339distributed feedback (DFB), 338, 339efficiency of the He-Ne, 290
gain guided, 318gas, 287
modes, 292He-Ne, 287, 299
characteristics – table, 358efficiency, 290principle of operation, 288
modes, 292, 294, 301, 302multiple quantum well (MQW), 322Nd3+:YAG laser, 269optical cavity, 268, 287, 297oscillation conditions, 295oscillator, 298output spectrum of a gas, 290output wavelength variations, 330principles, 266ruby laser, 267semiconductor, 348single frequency solid state, 338
guiding layer, 339threshold gain, 296vertical cavity surface emitting (VCSE), 344
Laser diode (LD)active region, 318buried heterostructure, 319characteristics, 324conversion efficiency, 328direct modulation of, 351–354distributed Bragg reflector (DBR), 338distributed feedback (DFB), 339divergence of output, 325double heterostructure, 332edge emitting, 318equation, 332external cavity, 342external power efficiency, 362Fabry–Perot, 318gain guided, 318heterostructure, 315homojunction, 315index guided, 319inversion layer, 312modes, 320modulation, 351principles, 311rate equations, 332single frequency, 338single mode, 319slope efficiency, 327stripe geometry, 317transient response, 352
delay time, 353relaxation oscillation, 352
tables, 329, 340threshold current, 314, 315transparency current, 314vertical cavity, surface emitting, 344
Lasing emission, 267Lateral displacement of light, 25Lattice vibrations, 495LED, see light emitting diode, LEDLifetime broadening, 304Light absorption, 43
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Index 523
Light emitting diode, LED, 179, 224active region, 247AlGaAs, 256characteristics, 245–246cut-in voltage, 245edge emitting (ELED), 247–248, 261efficiencies and luminous flux, 242–244electronics, 251–253energy band diagram, 224external quantum efficiency (EQE), 242fiber coupling efficiency, 261for optical communications, 251heterojunction, 246high intensity, 233internal quantum efficiency (IQE), 242linewidth, 226, 229luminous efficacy, 244materials, 237–238optical fiber communications, 246–248output spectrum, 246phosphors and white, 249–251power conversion efficiency, 243principles, 224structure, 238–241superluminescent and resonant cavity, 350–351surface emitting (SLED), 247, 261turn-on voltage, 145wavelengths, 241white, 249
Lineshape function, 296Linewidth, 124Liquid crystal display (LCD), 458–462
twisted nematic field effect, 459Lithium niobate (LiNbO3)
acousto-optic, 476phase modulator, 471, 493Pockels effect, 463properties, 447
Load line, 424Longitudinal axial modes, 302Lorentzian lineshape, 304Loss coefficient, 297Luminescence, 249Luminosity function, 243Luminous
efficacy of light source, 244flux, 243
MMach–Zehnder interferometer, 69Mach–Zehnder modulator, 70, 473Macrobending loss, 148Magneto-optic effects, 483Magneto-optic isolator, 495Magneto-optic modulator, 495Maiman, Theodore Harold, 363Majority carriers, 190Malus’s law, 444Mass action law, 186Matrix emitter, 347Maximum acceptance angle, 117Maxwell’s wave equation, 6, 10Mean thermal generation time, 210
Meinel and Meinel equation, 438Metalsemiconductor-metal (MSM) structure, 400
photodiodes, 400Meridional ray, 108–109, 137Microbending loss, 148
graph vs. bend radius, 150Microlaser, 347Midwinter, John, 34Mie scattering, 76Minority carriers, 190
diffusion, 203diffusion length, 377
Modal index, 163Mode
cavity, 55, 292, 314coherently coupled, 340field diameter (MFD), 112hop in lasers, 326intensity of transmitted, 57linearly polarized, 109number, 99, 292of propagation, 99resonator, 57TE, 100, 168–169, 303TM, 100, 168–169, 303transverse, 303
Mode field diameter (MFD), 112–113Mode locking, 310–311Modulated directional coupler, 476Modulation of light, 441–497Monochromatic wave, 14MQW, see Multiple quantum well (MQW)Multimode fiber, 112Multiple interference, 61Multiple quantum well (MQW), 236, 322Multiple reflections
in plates and incoherent waves, 73–74thin films, 70
Multiplication region, 393Mutual temporal coherence, 51
nNatural broadening, 304Negative absolute temperature, 272Net round-trip optical gain, 297Noise
current, 409equivalent power (NEP), 410NEP graph, 412excess avalanche, 437excess, 387noise figure, 286in an APD, 414in photodetectors, 408of an ideal photodetector, 412photon noise, 409quantum, 409, 413shot, 409
Noncentrosymmetric crystals, 463Nondegenerate semiconductors, 191Nonlinear optics, 485Nonlinear effects, 157, 462, 486Non-thermal equilibrium, 272
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524 Index
Normalized frequency, 100, 110Normalized index difference, 108, 110Normalized propagation constant, 114Normalized thickness, 100Numerical aperture, 117, 118, 138
OOptical activity, 456, 484
dextrorotatory, 457levorotatory, 457
Optical amplifier, 267erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFA), 276semiconductor optical amplifier, 348table, EDFA, 286
Optical anisotropy, 445–446Optical bandwidth, 130, 134, 252Optical cavity, 272, 287
intensity, 55maximum intensity, 55modes, 54in lasers, 301resonant frequencies, 54, 314
Optical divergence, 7Optical confinement, 315Optical fiber, 95
all wave fiber, 146attenuation, 142, 144cutoff wavelength, 111doubly clad, 127dispersion flattened, 127dispersion shifted, 122drawing, 152–155
schematic, 152fundamental mode, 109graded index, 135–142light emitters, 246MAC number, 150manufacture, 152
laydown stage, 153multimode, 111, 118, 170nonzero dispersion shifted, 127propagation constant, 114propagation of light, 109reduced slope, 126sensor, 166single mode, 111, 112, 115, 170single mode cutoff, 111step index, 107types of, 127V-number, 109zero dispersion shifted, 126
Optical fiber amplifier, 276erbium ion doped, 276gain efficiency, 281
Optical field, 4Optical frequencies, 11Optical gain, 267, 275, 291
coefficient, 295–296lineshape, 291net round-trip, 297threshold, 297
Optical indicatrix, 448Optical isolator, 484
Optical laser amplifiers, 348Optical modulators
coupled waveguide, 473integrated, 470intensity, 467Kerr effect, 470Mach–Zehnder, 473Pockels cell, 468
Optical pumping, 267–268Optical resonator, 53Optical tunneling, 33, 34Optically isotropic, 11, 445Optic axis, 446Optimal profile index, 138Output power and photon lifetime in the cavity, 299–300Output spectrum
LED, 226gas laser, 290laser diode, 315, 326–327white LED, 249
Outside vapor deposition, 152, 153, 154schematic, 153
PPassive pixel sensor, 418Penetration depth, 31, 373Perot, Alfred, 53Phase change, 28
in TIR, 30, 34Phase condition in lasers, 301Phase matching, 487Phase matching angle, 487Phase mismatch, 475Phase modulation, 470Phase modulator, 465
LiNbO3, 468Phase of a wave, 3Phase velocity, 5Phonon, 197, 375, 495
energy and momentum, 375Phosphors, 249Photoconductive detectors, 402Photoconductive gain, 402Photoconductivity, 404Photocurrent, 366, 369, 422Photodetection Modes, 367–369Photodetector, 365
neutral region, 366quantum efficiency, 375Shockley–Ramo theorem, 372responsivity, 375
Photodiode, 365, 383circuits, 405–408materials, 373
photocurrent, 370pn junction, 365
diagram, 366responsivity, 375space charge layer (SCL), 366spectral responsivity, 375table, 373
Photoelastic effect, 159, 476Photogeneration, 366–367
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Index 525
Photon amplification, 265–266Photon cavity lifetime, 300; see also Cavity lifetimePhoton confinement, 319Photon flux, 242Photon lifetime, see Cavity lifetimePhotonic bandgap, 77, 78
guided, 162Photonic crystal fiber (PCF),
160–163Photonic crystals, 76–82Phototransistor, 401
heterojunction, 402Photovoltaic devices, see Solar cellPhotovoltaic mode of operation, 370Piezoelectric effect, 482pin photodiode, 379, 380
characteristics – table, 389junction capacitance, 381NEP of a Si, 412photocarrier diffusion, 383response time, 381responsivity, 384speed, 383steady state photocurrent, 385transient photocurrents, 432transit time, 381
Pixel image sensor, 418Planck’s radiation distribution law, 271pn junction, 198
band diagram, 318graph, 319
built-in field, 200built-in potential, 200, 201current density, 210, 132depletion region, 199diffusion (storage) capacitance, 214direct bandgap, 136dynamic (incremental) resistance, 213energy band diagram, 220forward bias, 205, 210
currents, 206diagram, 201recombination current, 206
law of the junction, 202, 204metallurgical junction, 198properties – graph, 198reverse bias, 209, 220
diagram, 209total current, 210
reverse saturation, 210space charge layer (SCL), 199, 211
Pockels cell modulator, 468longitudinal, 465transverse, 465
Pockels coefficients – table, 469Pockels effect, 462
transverse, 465Pockels, Friedrich Carl Alwin, 463Pockels phase modulator, 465Point defect, 81Polarization
angle, 29; see also Brewster angleanisotropic, 491
circular, 442right, 242
dispersion, 122dispersion effects, 122elliptical, 443induced, 486linear, 443modulation, 470modulator, 466of EM wave, 441, 444state, 441
Polarization transmission matrix, 490Population inversion, 265, 272, 312
threshold, 297Poynting vector, 18–22Preform, 152Pressure broadening, 304Prism, 25, 44
birefringent, 455Profile effects–fibers, 122Profile index, 137
optimal, 137Propagation constant, 3, 114
complex, 44Propagation vector, 5Pseudo photonic bandgap (PBG), 79Pulsed Lasers, 307–311Pumping, 267, 280
erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA), 280gas discharge (collision), 288injection, 313
Pyroelectric detectors, 365
QQ-Switching, 307–309Quantum efficiency, 375
detector, 375external differential, 327external, 327, 375internal, 242, 328
Quantum noise, 409Quantum well, 233
devices, 233GaAs, 323–324high intensity LEDs, 233–236laser diode, 321
Quaternary alloy, 237Quarter-wave plate retarder, 453Quartz, 446, 453
RRadiant flux, 242Radiant sensitivity, 376Raman–Nath regime, 477Ramo’s theorem, see Shockley–Ramo theoremRate equations, laser diodes, 332Rayleigh criterion, 63Rayleigh range, 8Rayleigh scattering, 75Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 75Rayleigh scattering limit, 146Reach-trough voltage, 400Real image, holography, 355, 356
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526 Index
Recombination, 183center, 197current, 208direct, 214direct capture coefficient, 215indirect, 216
Recombination lifetime, 214definition, 214excess minority carrier, 215mean, 206weak injection, 215
Reflectance, 32, 55bandwidth, 41at normal incidence, 32
Reflectionamplitude, 26at normal incidence, 30, 33coefficients, 27
graph, 31external, 30, 36
at normal incidence, 30frustrated total internal, 34, 35internal, 30, 36
graph, 29multiple reflections, 70and transmission at the Brewster
angle, 37total internal, 22, 23, 24, 30, 34
Refracted light, 22from a less dense medium, 35
Refractive index, 11complex, 45dispersion, 10field induced change, 462graph vs. wavelength, 11nonlinear, 158optical crystals, 446table, 12
Resolving powerangular limit of resolution, 63diffraction grating, 66imaging systems, 63
Response time, 381Responsivity, 376
graphs, 377, 382table, 389
Reststrahlen absorption, 46Retarding plates, 452Return-to-zero (RTZ) data
rate, 131Rise time, 253
SSaturation drift velocity, 384Scattering
anisotropic, 491light, 145, 297Rayleigh, 74, 75
Schottky barrier height, 398
Schottky-junction photodetector, 397–400
SCL, see Space charge layer, 199Second harmonic generation, 485Self-phase modulation, 158Sellmeier and Cauchy coefficients, 13Sellmeier dispersion equation, 13, 83Semiconductors, 179–197
charge neutrality, 199compensation doping, 190conductivity, 188degenerate, 191direct bandgap, 194–197, 216extrinsic, 187III-V compound, 257indirect bandgap, 194, 197intrinsic, 186non-degenerate, 185, 191n-type, 187optical amplifier, 348–349p-type, 187rate equations, 332statistics, 184
Shockley–Ramo theorem, 370, 372
Shockley equation, 204Shot noise, 409Shunt resistance, 407Side mode suppression ratio, 339Silica (SiO2)
Germenia (SiO2-GeO2), 85, 153refractive index, 16, 85, 153
Signal to noise ratio (SNR), 286, 410of a receiver, 413
Simpson, J. R., 276Single frequency lasers, 338
cleaved coupled cavity, 340distributed Bragg reflection (DBR), 338distributed feedback (DFB), 339
Single-mode fiber, 112Single quantum well (SQW), 321
energy levels, 321laser, 321
Skew ray, 108Snell’s law, 22–25Snell, Willebrord van Roijen, 22Solar cell, 421–428
antireflection coating, 39equivalent circuit, 425properties – table, 426
Solar constant, see Air-massSoleil–Babinet compensator, 454, 455Solid state photomultiplier, 396Space charge layer (SCL), 199; see also
Depletion regionwidth and voltage, 212
Specific rotatory power, 457Spectral hole burning, 307Spectral intensity, 258
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Spectral responsivity, 376Spectral width, 56, 57
of a wave train, 48Spontaneous emission, 266Spot size, 7SQW, see Single quantum well (SQW)Step-index fibers, 107–116Stimulated Brillouin scattering
(SBS), 158Stimulated emission, 265, 266
rate, 270Stokes shift, 250Stop band, 41Strong injection, see High injectionSuperlattice, 395Superposition of waves, 51
TTandem solar cell, 427Terminal capacitance, 407Ternary alloy, 237Thermal equilibrium, 271Thermal generation, 183
in SCL, 210Thermal velocity, 186Thin films
multiple reflections, 70optics, 70, 72–73
Three-level laser system, 267Threshold concentration, 333Threshold current, 326, 237, 334Threshold wavelength, 372Total acceptance angle, 117, 118Total internal reflection, 30, 33, 34
critical angle, 24Townes, Charles D., 272Transfer distance in coupled
waveguides, 474Transit time, 381Transmission axis, 444Transmission coefficient, 26–28Transmittance, 32
at normal incidence, 33Transverse electric field (TE), 26Transverse magnetic field (TM), 26Trench fiber, 150Truncated spherical lens, 247Turbidity, 76Twisted nematic liquid
crystal cell, 459Tyndall, John, 107
UUniaxial crystals, 446
negative, 446optic axis, 446positive, 446
Unpolarized light, 29
VValence band (VB), 182
hole concentration, 186Verdet constant, 483
table, 485Vertical cavity surface emitting laser
(VCSEL), 344Virtual image holography,
354, 355Visibility function, 243V-number, 100, 102, 104V-parameter, 100
WWaist, beam, 7
radius, 7Wave
circularly polarized, 442, 453diverging, 6electromagnetic, 3elliptically polarized, 443energy density in an EM, 18evanescent, 24, 31
attenuation, 31extraordinary, 447fields in an EM, 18linearly polarized, 29, 109, 276monochromatic plane, 3ordinary, 447plane electromagnetic, 3plane-polarized, 441sinusoidal, 48spherical, 7stationary or standing EM, 54
Wave equation, 4, 6Wavefront, 3
Gaussian light beam, 8Wavefront reconstruction, 356Waveguide, 95
condition, 95–99cutoff wavelength, 100dielectric, 95–167dispersion, 104–107, 125, 171
coefficient, 121diagram, 104
modes, 101mode determination, 102multimode, 100planar, 104propagation constant, 97single mode, 100symmetric dielectric slab, 95
diagram, 96possible modes, 98propagation constant, 98transverse propagation, 97
Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), 155
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528 Index
Wave number, 3Wave packet, 14Wave vector, 5
surface, 449Weakly guiding fiber, 109Wire grid polarizer, 491
Wollaston prism, 455, 456, 492Wood, Robert William, 66
YYoung’s two slit experiment, 52
I don’t really start until I get my proofs back from the printers. Then I can begin serious writing.
—John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)1
1The Guardian, 8 June 1983, p. 22 as cited in A. L. Mackay, Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, 1991, p. 140.
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