Optoelectronics & Photonics: Principles & Practices

SAFA KASAP is currently a Professor of Electronic Materials and Devices in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He obtained the B.S.E.E. (1976), M.S. (1978), and Ph.D. (1983) degrees from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, specializing in amorphous semiconductors and optoelectronics. In 1996 he was awarded the D.Sc. (Engineering) degree from London University for his research contributions to materials science in electrical engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Materials. His research interests are in amorphous semiconductors, noise in electronic devices, photoconductors, photodetectors, X-ray image detectors, laser-induced transient photocnductivity and related topics, with more than 100 refereed journal publications in these areas.

Chapter 1 Wave Nature of Light
Chapter 2 Dielectric Waveguides and Optical Fibers
Chapter 3 Semiconductor Science and Light-Emitting Diodes
Chapter 4 Stimulated Emission Devices: Optical Amplifiers and Lasers
Chapter 5 Photodetectors and Image Sensors
Chapter 6 Polarization and Modulation of Light
Appendix A Gaussian
Appendix B Solid Angles
Appendix C Basic Radiometry and Photometry
Appendix D Useful Mathematical Formulae
Appendix E Notation and Abbreviations
Index