2nd Edition
Handbook of Optoelectronics Concepts, Devices, and Techniques (Volume One)
Handbook of Optoelectronics offers a self-contained reference from the basic science and light sources to devices and modern applications across the entire spectrum of disciplines utilizing optoelectronic technologies. This second edition gives a complete update of the original work with a focus on systems and applications.
Volume I covers the details of optoelectronic devices and techniques including semiconductor lasers, optical detectors and receivers, optical fiber devices, modulators, amplifiers, integrated optics, LEDs, and engineered optical materials with brand new chapters on silicon photonics, nanophotonics, and graphene optoelectronics. Volume II addresses the underlying system technologies enabling state-of-the-art communications, imaging, displays, sensing, data processing, energy conversion, and actuation. Volume III is brand new to this edition, focusing on applications in infrastructure, transport, security, surveillance, environmental monitoring, military, industrial, oil and gas, energy generation and distribution, medicine, and free space.
No other resource in the field comes close to its breadth and depth, with contributions from leading industrial and academic institutions around the world. Whether used as a reference, research tool, or broad-based introduction to the field, the Handbook offers everything you need to get started. (The previous edition of this title was published as Handbook of Optoelectronics, 9780750306461.)
John P. Dakin, PhD, is professor (emeritus) at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK.
Robert G. W. Brown, PhD, is chief executive officer of the American Institute of Physics and an adjunct full professor in the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic at the University of California, Irvine.
Series Preface
Introduction to the Second Edition
Introduction to the First Edition
Editors
Contributors
Part I BASIC CONCEPTS
1 An introduction to optoelectronics
Alan Rogers and Vincent Handerek
2 Introduction to optical materials
Neil J. Ross
3 Incandescent, discharge, and arc lamp sources
David O. Wharmby
4 Detection of optical radiation
Antoni Rogalski, Zbigniew Bielecki, and Janusz Mikolajczyk
5 Propagation along optical fibers and waveguides
John Love
6 Introduction to lasers and optical amplifiers
William S. Wong, Chien-Jen Chen, and Yan Sun
Part II ADVANCED CONCEPTS
7 Advanced optics
Alan Rogers and Vincent Handerek
8 Basic concepts in photometry, radiometry, and colorimetry
Yoshi Ohno
9 Nonlinear and short pulse effects
Günter Steinmeyer
Part III OPTOELECTR ONIC DEVICES AND TECHNIQUES
10 Light emitting diodes (LEDs)
Klaus Streubel
11 Semiconductor lasers
Jayanta Mukherjee and Stephen J. Sweeney
12 Optical detectors and receivers
Hidehiro Kume
13 Optical fiber devices
Suzanne Lacroix and Xavier Daxhelet
14 Optical modulators
Nadir Dagli
15 Optical amplifiers
Johan Nilsson, Jesper Lægsgaard, and Anders Bjarklev
16 Ultrafast optoelectronics
Günter Steinmeyer
17 Integrated optics
Nikolaus Boos and Christian Lerminiaux
18 Infrared devices and techniques
Antoni Rogalski and Krzysztof Chrzanowski
19 Organic light emitting devices
Martin Grell
20 Microstructured optical fibers
Jesper Lægsgaard, Anders Bjarklev, and Tanya Monro
21 Engineered optical materials
Peter G. R. Smith and Corin B. E. Gawith
22 Silicon photonics
Sasan Fathpour
23 Nanoplasmonic optoelectronics
Robert G. W. Brown
Index
Biography
John P. Dakin, PhD, is Professor (Emeritus) at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton. He received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Southampton University, U.K., and remained there as a Research Fellow until 1973 where he supervised research and development of optical fiber sensors and other optical measurement instruments. He then spent two years in Germany at AEG Telefunken, 12 years at Plessey, UK, and two years with York Limited/York Biodynamics before returning to Southampton University. He has authored over 150 technical and scientific papers, and over 120 patent applications. He was previously a Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University, UK.
Dr. Dakin has won a number of awards, including "Inventor of the Year" for Plessey Electronic Systems Limited, the Electronics Divisional Board Premium of 1EE. Earlier, he won open scholarships to both Southampton and Manchester Universities. He has also been responsible for a number of key electro-optic developments. These include the sphere lens optical fiber connector, the first WDM optical shaft encoder, the Raman optical fiber distributed temperature sensor, the first realization of a fiber-optic passive hydrophone array sensor and the Sagnac location method described here, plus a number of novel optical gas sensing methods.
