Physics of Optoelectronics (Optical Engineering) Michael A. Parker

Physics of Optoelectronics integrates into one comprehensive treatment introductions to semiconductor lasers and optics, linear algebra and quantum mechanics for optoelectronics, and quantum optics. It builds all the background you need to understand current research and publications of laser engineering-physics, from the basics of lasers and LEDs through the rate equations to the quantum mechanical expressions for gain and optical fields. Topics include an introduction to semiconductor lasers, a review of laser dynamics, classical electromagnetics and lasers, vector and Hilbert spaces and other mathematical foundations, quantum fields and other fundamentals of light, matter-light interaction, and semiconductor emitters and detectors.