Pollock C.R. Fundamentals of Optoelectronics

Irwin, 1995, 569 pages, ISBN: 0256101043Fundamentals of Optoelectronics teaches the basic physics and design engineering of guided wave optical devices. The text explains physical principles in an interactive fashion, stressing understanding, but also involving enough math and physics to provide practical design formula. The text uses a lot of numerical examples and offers numerical homework problems, which brings it up to date with current research and development in industry. The text is pragmatic, aimed at showing the student how to design or simulate real devices. No other available text takes this pragmatic hardware approach.Fundamentals.
The fundamental tools of optoelectronics: Maxwell's equations.
The optical wire.
The planar slab waveguide.
Dispersion in waveguides.
Graded-index waveguides.
Step-index circular waveguides.
Dispersion and graded-index fibers.
Attenuation and nonlinear effects in waveguides.
Rectangular dielectric waveguides.
Coupungandnumer analysis.
The beam propagation method for analyzing optical waveguides.
Coupled mode theory and application.
Coupling between optical sources and waveguides.
Noise and detection.
Noise in optical detectors.
Optical detectors.
Optical sources.
Optical radiation and amplification.
Optical amplifiers and lasers.
Semiconductor lasers.
Optical devices.
Waveguide modulators.
Fiber-optic sensors.