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Fundamentals of Semiconductor Lasers explains the physics and fundamental characteristics of semiconductor lasers with regards to systems applications. The detailed and comprehensive presentation is unique in that it encourages the reader to consider different semiconductor lasers from different angles. Emphasis is placed on recognizing common concepts such operating principles and structure, and solving problems based on individual situations. The treatment is enhanced by an historical account of advances in semiconductor lasers over the years, discussing both those ideas that have both persisted over the years and those that have faded out. The first four chapters cover the basics of semiconductors, including band structures, optical transitions, optical waveguides, and optical resonators. The remaining chapters discuss operating principles and basic characteristics of semiconductor lasers, and advanced topics including dynamics single-mode lasers, quantum well lasers, and control of spontaneous emission. The reader need only be familiar with undergraduate-level electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. After reading this book, the student will be able to think critically about semiconductor lasers, and be able to read and understand journal papers in the field. This book will be essential to any advanced undergraduate or graduate student of semiconductor lasers, and any professional physicist or engineer looking for a good overview of the subject.

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I remember vividly the ?rst time that I heard about the ?ber ampli?er. At that time, of course, it was the erbium-doped ?ber ampli?er, the predecessor of the Raman ampli?er that is the subject of this book. It was an early morning in a forgotten year in Murray Hill, New Jersey at one of our Bell Labs monthly research staff meetings. About twenty directors and executive directors of research organizations clustered around a long table in the imposing executive conference room. Arno Penzias, the vice president of research, presided at the foot of the table. Everyone who participated in those research staff meetings will long remember their culture and atmosphere. Arno would pick an arbitrary starting point somewhere around the table, and the designated person would head to the front of the table to give a short talk on “something new” in his or her research area. This ?rst speaker would invariably ?ddle helplessly with the controls embedded in the podium that controlled the viewgraph projector, but eventually we would hear machinery grinding in the back room as a large hidden mirror moved into place. We would all wait quietly, arranging and choosing our own viewgraphs from the piles that lay on the table in front of every participant.

Fiber optics. --- Optical communications. --- Raman effect. --- Optical amplifiers. --- Telecommunication. --- Microwaves. --- Communications Engineering, Networks. --- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. --- Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering. --- Hertzian waves --- Electric waves --- Electromagnetic waves --- Geomagnetic micropulsations --- Radio waves --- Shortwave radio --- Electric communication --- Mass communication --- Telecom --- Telecommunication industry --- Telecommunications --- Communication --- Information theory --- Telecommuting --- Electrical engineering. --- Lasers. --- Photonics. --- Optical engineering. --- Mechanical engineering --- New optics --- Optics --- Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation --- Masers, Optical --- Optical masers --- Light amplifiers --- Light sources --- Optoelectronic devices --- Nonlinear optics --- Optical parametric oscillators --- Electric engineering --- Engineering

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"Photonic Crystals" details recent progress in the study of photonic crystals, ranging from fundamental aspects to up-to-date applications, in one unified treatment. It covers most of the worldwide frontier fields in photonic crystals, including up-to-date fabrication techniques, recent and future technological applications, and our basic understanding of the various optical properties of photonic crystals. Brand-new theoretical and experimental data are also presented. The book is intended for graduate course students and specialists actively working in this field, but it will also be useful for newcomers, especially the extensive chapter dealing with fundamental aspects of photonic crystals, which paves the way to a full appreciation of the other topics addressed.

681.7.036 --- Photons --- Crystal optics --- Optical apparatus and instruments--?.036 --- Crystals --- Optical crystallography --- Crystallography --- Physical optics --- Light quantum --- Light --- Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment --- 681.7.036 Optical apparatus and instruments--?.036 --- Optical properties --- Optique cristalline --- Optical materials. --- Electronic materials. --- Lasers. --- Photonics. --- Materials science. --- Condensed matter. --- Engineering. --- Optical and Electronic Materials. --- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. --- Characterization and Evaluation of Materials. --- Condensed Matter Physics. --- Engineering, general. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Condensed materials --- Condensed media --- Condensed phase --- Materials, Condensed --- Media, Condensed --- Phase, Condensed --- Liquids --- Matter --- Solids --- Material science --- Physical sciences --- New optics --- Optics --- Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation --- Masers, Optical --- Optical masers --- Light amplifiers --- Light sources --- Optoelectronic devices --- Nonlinear optics --- Optical parametric oscillators --- Electronic materials --- Materials

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This is the first comprehensive book on thin-film solar cells, potentially a key technology for solving the energy production problem in the 21st century in an environmentally friendly way. It covers a wide range of scientific and technological aspects of thin film semiconductors - deposition technologies, growth mechanisms and the basic properties of amorphous and nano-crystalline silicon - as well as the optimum design theory and device physics of high-efficiency solar cells, especially of single-junction and multi-junction solar cells. The development of large-area solar cell modules using single and multi-junction solar cells is also considered. Examples of recent photovoltaic systems are presented and analysed.

Photovoltaic power generation --- Thin films --- Solar cells --- Thin film devices --- Photovoltaic power generation. --- Solar cells. --- Thin film devices. --- Thin films. --- Films, Thin --- Solid film --- Solid state electronics --- Solids --- Surfaces (Technology) --- Coatings --- Thick films --- Devices, Thin film --- Electronic apparatus and appliances --- Cells, Solar --- Direct energy conversion --- Photovoltaic cells --- Solar batteries --- Solar energy --- Photovoltaic energy conversion --- Photovoltaics --- Optical materials. --- Electronic materials. --- Lasers. --- Photonics. --- Materials science. --- Engineering. --- Optical and Electronic Materials. --- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. --- Characterization and Evaluation of Materials. --- Engineering, general. --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Material science --- Physical sciences --- New optics --- Optics --- Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation --- Masers, Optical --- Optical masers --- Light amplifiers --- Light sources --- Optoelectronic devices --- Nonlinear optics --- Optical parametric oscillators --- Electronic materials --- Materials

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The idea of writing a book on CMOS imaging has been brewing for several years. It was placed on a fast track after we agreed to organize a tutorial on CMOS sensors for the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2004). This tutorial defined the structure of the book, but as first time authors/editors, we had a lot to learn about the logistics of putting together information from multiple sources. Needless to say, it was a long road between the tutorial and the book, and it took more than a few months to complete. We hope that you will find our journey worthwhile and the collated information useful. The laboratories of the authors are located at many universities distributed around the world. Their unifying theme, however, is the advancement of knowledge for the development of systems for CMOS imaging and image processing. We hope that this book will highlight the ideas that have been pioneered by the authors, while providing a roadmap for new practitioners in this field to exploit exciting opportunities to integrate imaging and “smartness” on a single VLSI chip. The potential of these smart imaging systems is still unfulfilled. Hence, there is still plenty of research and development to be done.

Metal oxide semiconductors, Complementary. --- Imaging systems. --- Image processing --- Digital techniques. --- Systems engineering. --- Computer engineering. --- Software engineering. --- Computer vision. --- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. --- Circuits and Systems. --- Electrical Engineering. --- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems. --- Image Processing and Computer Vision. --- Machine vision --- Vision, Computer --- Artificial intelligence --- Pattern recognition systems --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Computers --- Engineering systems --- System engineering --- Industrial engineering --- System analysis --- Design and construction --- Lasers. --- Photonics. --- Electronic circuits. --- Electrical engineering. --- Optical data processing. --- Optical computing --- Visual data processing --- Bionics --- Electronic data processing --- Integrated optics --- Photonics --- Electric engineering --- Electron-tube circuits --- Electric circuits --- Electron tubes --- Electronics --- New optics --- Optics --- Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation --- Masers, Optical --- Optical masers --- Light amplifiers --- Light sources --- Optoelectronic devices --- Nonlinear optics --- Optical parametric oscillators --- Optical equipment --- Radar --- Remote sensing --- Television --- Scanning systems --- CMOS (Electronics) --- Complementary metal oxide semiconductors --- Semiconductors, Complementary metal oxide --- Digital electronics --- Logic circuits --- Transistor-transistor logic circuits --- Digital image processing --- Equipment and supplies