Coherent Semiconductor Optics From Basic Concepts to Nanostructure Applications

Title:

ISBN:

9783540325550

Personal Author:

Meier, Torsten. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2007.

Publication Information New:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007.

Physical Description:

XIII, 319 p. online resource.

Contents:

Preliminaries -- Experimental Techniques -- Few-Level Systems -- Coherent Tunneling -- The Semiconductor Model -- Single-Particle Properties -- The Equation of Motion Approach -- Dynamical Equations for Semiconductors -- Applications I -- Linear Optical Response -- Coherent ? (3) Processes for Level Systems -- Coherent ? (3) and ? (5) Processes in Ordered Semiconductors -- Coherent ? (3) and ?(5) Processes in Disordered Semiconductors -- Coherent Excitation Spectroscopy -- Character of Continuum Transitions -- Applications II -- The Semiconductor with Applied Electric Field -- Mesoscopic Semiconductor Rings -- Coherent Density Dynamics in Disordered Semiconductors -- Current Echoes -- Problems.

Abstract:

This book introduces the basic theoretical concepts required for the analysis of the optical response of semiconductor systems in the coherent regime. The entire presentation is based on a one-dimensional tight-binding model. Starting with discrete-level systems, increasing complexity is added gradually to the model by including band-structure and many-particle interaction. Various linear and nonlinear optical spectra and temporal phenomena are studied. The analysis of many-body effects in nonlinear optical phenomena covers a major part of the book. Only basic knowledge of quantum mechanics is required to benefit from the results presented in this book. Therefore, it is well suited as a textbook for advanced classes, for self-study, and for researchers interested in the field of semiconductor optics.

Subject Term:

Classical Electrodynamics.

Condensed Matter Physics.

Applied and Technical Physics.

Spectroscopy.

Laser.

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