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5.0 out of 5 stars
Very good book, detailed, alternative to Yariv or Saleh, November 10, 2005
This review is from: Optoelectronics (Paperback)
Broad coverage, but goes into enough detail to show you how to
calculate things like the effects of compressive or tensile strain on the energy levels in quantum wells or how to get the emission width of an LED. Readable and well laid out. A good alternative at a similar level to Yariv's Modern Optical Electronics or Chuang's Physics of Optoelectronic Devices and slightly higher than Saleh's Fundamentals of Photonics or Bhattacharya's Semiconductor Optoelectronics (I think all of above are good textbooks). Not as detailed in lasers as Coldren/Corzine's Diode Laser..., or Schubert's LED book, but the coverage is broader. The authors stick in the odd Mathematica program lines on occasion, which I find annoying in the text but are a minor defect (I think readers can develop their own models in Mathematica, MathCad, or whatever). Overall a good buy.
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