Silicon Photonics
Fundamentals and Devices
Wiley Series in Materials for Electronic & Optoelectronic Applications
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1. Auflage April 2012
454 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
The creation of affordable high speed optical communications using
standard semiconductor manufacturing technology is a principal aim
of silicon photonics research. This would involve replacing copper
connections with optical fibres or waveguides, and electrons with
photons. With applications such as telecommunications and
information processing, light detection, spectroscopy, holography
and robotics, silicon photonics has the potential to revolutionise
electronic-only systems. Providing an overview of the
physics, technology and device operation of photonic devices using
exclusively silicon and related alloys, the book includes:
* Basic Properties of Silicon
* Quantum Wells, Wires, Dots and Superlattices
* Absorption Processes in Semiconductors
* Light Emitters in Silicon
* Photodetectors , Photodiodes and Phototransistors
* Raman Lasers including Raman Scattering
* Guided Lightwaves
* Planar Waveguide Devices
* Fabrication Techniques and Material Systems
Silicon Photonics: Fundamentals and Devices outlines the
basic principles of operation of devices, the structures of the
devices, and offers an insight into state-of-the-art and future
developments.
Prasanta Kumar Basu obtained his BSc and his PhD from the University of Calcutta (India). He worked in the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, as a lecturer, then as a reader and finally as a professor. He served as the Head of the Department and he is now the Programme Coordinator of the Centre of Advanced Study in Radio Physics and Electronics at the University of Calcutta. Professor Basu worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium, as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Wuerzburg University, Germany and has been a visiting professor at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada several times. Professor Basu's research interests include semiconductor physics and devices, optoelectronics and optical communication, nanoelectronics and nanophotonics. He has more than 100 research publications in refereed journals and has authored a book Theory of Optical Processes in Semiconductors: Bulk and Microstructures.