Book description
Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits
, Second Edition provides a comprehensive treatment of optical
communication technology, its principles and theory, treating students
as well as experienced engineers to an in-depth exploration of this
field. Diode lasers are still of significant importance in the areas of
optical communication, storage, and sensing. Using the the same well
received theoretical foundations of the first edition, the Second
Edition now introduces timely updates in the technology and in focus of
the book. After 15 years of development in the field, this book will
offer brand new and updated material on GaN-based and quantum-dot
lasers, photonic IC technology, detectors, modulators and SOAs, DVDs and
storage, eye diagrams and BER concepts, and DFB lasers. Appendices will
also be expanded to include quantum-dot issues and more on the relation
between spontaneous emission and gain. Larry A. Coldren
is the Fred Kavli Professor of Optoelectronics and Sensors at the
University of California, Santa Barbara. He has authored or coauthored
over a thousand journal and conference papers, seven book chapters, and
a textbook, and has been issued sixty-three patents. He is a Fellow of
the IEEE, OSA, and IEE, the recipient of the 2004 John Tyndall and 2009
Aron Kressel Awards, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Scott W. Corzine obtained his PhD from the University of
California, Santa Barbara, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, for his work on vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
(VCSELs). He worked for ten years at HP/Agilent Laboratories in Palo
Alto, California, on VCSELs, externally modulated lasers, and quantum
cascade lasers. He is currently with Infinera in Sunnyvale,
California, working on photonic integrated circuits.
Milan L. Mashanovitch obtained his PhD in the field of photonic
integrated circuits at the University of California, Santa Barbara
(UCSB), in 2004. He has since been with UCSB as a scientist working on
tunable photonic integrated circuits and as an adjunct professor, and
with Freedom Photonics LLC, Santa Barbara, which he cofounded in 2005,
working on photonic integrated circuits.
