Optoelectronic Devices
Design, Modeling, and Simulation

Get hands-on experience of optoelectronic device design and simulation using numerical methods.

Xun Li (Author)

9780521875103, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 June 2009

374 pages, 3 b/w illus.
25.3 x 17.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.88 kg

With a clear application focus, this book explores optoelectronic device design and modeling through physics models and systematic numerical analysis. By obtaining solutions directly from the physics-based governing equations through numerical techniques, the author shows how to develop new devices and how to enhance the performance of existing devices. Semiconductor-based optoelectronic devices such as semiconductor laser diodes, electroabsorption modulators, semiconductor optical amplifiers, superluminescent light emitting diodes and their integrations are all covered. Including step-by-step practical design and simulation examples together with detailed numerical algorithms, this book provides researchers, device designers and graduate students in optoelectronics with the numerical techniques to obtain solutions for their own structures.

1. Introduction
2. Optical models
3. Material model I - semiconductor band structures
4. Material model II - the optical gain
5. Carrier transport and thermal diffusion models
6. Solution techniques for optical equations
7. Solution techniques for material gain equations
8. Solution techniques for carrier transport and thermal diffusion equations
9. Numerical analysis of device performance
10. Design and modeling examples of semiconductor laser diodes
11. Design and modeling examples of other solitary optoelectronic devices
12. Design and modeling examples of integrated optoelectronic devices
Appendices.

Subject Areas: Circuits & components [TJFC], Electronics engineering [TJF], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ]