Semiconductor Quantum Optoelectronics: From Quantum Physics to Smart Devices

This book allows those who already have some familiarity with semiconductor physics & devices, to broaden & expand their knowledge into new & expanding topics in low dimensional semiconductors. The book gives a pedagogical coverage of selected areas of new & pertinent physics of low dimensional structures together with a perspective of some of the latest optoelectronic devices presently under development. The coverage includes material & band structure issues & the physics of ultrafast, nonlinear, coherent, intersubband & intracavity phenomena. The devices emphasised are quantum wells, visible, quantum cascade & mode-locked lasers; microcavity LEDs & VCSELs; detectors & logic elements. An underlying theme is high speed phenomena & devices for increased system bandwidths.