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Physics of Optoelectronic Devices (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics)

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I have mainly used this book to help me understand how to incorporate the effects of tensile and compressive strain in quantum well calculations. It does this very clearly. It covers many other topics, but the main points are: 1) This is a graduate-level text probably unsuitable as a first exposure to this area for undergraduates; and 2) the author is not afraid of diving into the technical nitty-gritty of the areas he covers. He does a great job of explaining concepts in a relatively short amount of text (i.e. it is terse, yet understandable for the most part) and he provides good detail, including much data on III-V material properties. As another example, it gives a complete but condensed discussion of the Marcatili and effective index approximations for calculating single mode cutoffs in rectangular dielectric waveguides for lasers or PICs. This is a great reference book for those who actually want to calculate or design something without using a canned program.

First of all, I want to express regret that there is no excellent book covering the area of theory, fabrication, characterization of semiconductor lasers/devices. Some are too easy and some are too difficult. The symbols and convention are not unified at all, even simple "rate equations" have a lot of versions.

Overall, this book is good for graduate students. A good companion for advanced study. However, I don't like too many equations with only few explanations. By the way, on the small signal analysis of laser modulation, I recommend Coldren's "Diode lasers and photonic integrated circuits". Rate equations there make more sense to me. If you find it hard to understand, maybe try Parker's "Physics of Optoelectronics", an 5-star book. The strength of this book is its completeness, especially on optics, quantum mechanics and electromagnetics.

The book starts with the very basic equations of electromagnetic and semiconductor theory and builds up to more advanced topics such as band structure calculations for semiconductors including strained quantum wells, various optical transitions processes, optical absorption spectra, etc. In addition, the book covers the basic theory of laser cavity resonance and this includes the distributed feedback laser theory. Various waveguide, electro-optical modulators and photodetector principles are also treated in clear detail. The book brings you up to the level of which the research papers in the optoelectronic area has been written.

This book is new and most importantly is that the price cut. Almost cheaper than a used book. It's also a prime item, so that I can receive it in two days. That why I bought it.

The book is clear, concise, up-to-date, and always presents the information within context with regards to fundamental equations, history, and modern-day applications. There are a few typos, as can typically be expected in the first editions. This textbook is by far the most highly regarded and studied within my grad-student research group. I highly recommend it.

I am a graduate student working on a Masters for micro-scale detectors and I got this book as a reference and a learning supplement between me and some of the higher level literature papers. It has a lot of really good examples throughout the text to go along with the end of chapter problems. I would recommend this book to any upper level Physics student or Graduate student doing research in this field. The only reason it wan't five stars is because one of the typos really caused me to suffer when I was referring to this book in another class I was taking related to this topic.

From the basic concepts and physics to the branches of optical processes, the book gave a clear, specific and coherent view in optoelectronics, together with a multitude of useful problems.

This is by far the worst book I have had the displeasure of cracking open. The only place this belongs is the bathroom floor, just in case you run out of toilet paper and there are no bibles laying around. Despite his heavy accent, Chuang made no spelling errors in his book. This is because the book doesn't actually use any words besides those in the title. The text is merely a 709 page long hard-bound equation sheet. If you have the misfortune of needing this turd of a book for a class I suggest you leave it alone and instead rely on Kittel, Liu, and Singh. Keep in mind though that although Singh's book is the closest thing to a readable account of the physics of optoelectronic devices, it is still for the most part a crappy read and is riddled with typos.