1st Edition
Handbook of Optoelectronic Device Modeling and Simulation Lasers, Modulators, Photodetectors, Solar Cells, and Numerical Methods, Vol. 2
Optoelectronic devices are now ubiquitous in our daily lives, from light emitting diodes (LEDs) in many household appliances to solar cells for energy. This handbook shows how we can probe the underlying and highly complex physical processes using modern mathematical models and numerical simulation for optoelectronic device design, analysis, and performance optimization. It reflects the wide availability of powerful computers and advanced commercial software, which have opened the door for non-specialists to perform sophisticated modeling and simulation tasks. The chapters comprise the know-how of more than a hundred experts from all over the world. The handbook is an ideal starting point for beginners but also gives experienced researchers the opportunity to renew and broaden their knowledge in this expanding field.
PART VI Laser Diodes
26 Laser Diode Fundamentals
Joachim Piprek
27 High-Power Lasers
Hans Wenzel and Anissa Zeghuzi
28 High-Brightness Tapered Lasers
Ignacio Esquivias, Antonio Pérez-Serrano, and José-Manuel G. Tijero
29 High-Brightness Laser Diodes with External Feedback
Mohamad Anas Helal, Simeon N. Kaunga-Nyirenda, Steve Bull, and Eric Larkins
30 Single Longitudinal Mode Laser Diodes
Xun Li
31 Traveling Wave Modeling of Nonlinear Dynamics in Multisection Laser Diodes
Mindaugas Radziunas
32 Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers
Eugene Avrutin and Julien Javaloyes
33 Quantum Cascade Lasers: Electrothermal Simulation
Song Mei, Yanbing Shi, Olafur Jonasson, and Irena Knezevic
34 Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
Tomasz Czyszanowski, Leszek Frasunkiewicz, and Maciej Dems
PART VII Photodetectors and Modulators
35 Photodetector Fundamentals
Prasanta Basu
36 P-N Junction Photodiodes
Weida Hu
37 Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors
Kwong-Kit Choi
38 Optical Modulators
Dominic F.G. Gallagher and Dmitry Labukhin
PART VIII Solar Cells
39 Solar Cell Fundamentals
Matthias Müller
40 Multijunction Solar Cells
Matthew Wilkins and Karin Hinzer
41 Nanostructure Solar Cells
Urs Aeberhard
42 Nanowire Solar Cells: Electro-Optical Performance
Bernd Witzigmann
43 Thin-Film Solar Cells
Matthias Auf der Maur, Tim Albes, and Alessio Gagliardi
PART IX Novel Applications
44 Electroluminescent Refrigerators
Kuan-Chen Lee and Shun-Tung Yen
45 Photonic Crystal Laser Diodes
Maciej Dems
46 Single-Photon Sources
Niels Gregersen, Dara P. S. McCutcheon, and Jesper Mørk
47 Nanoplasmonic Lasers and Spasers
A. Freddie Page and Ortwin Hess
48 Quantum-Dot Nanolasers
Christopher Gies, Michael Lorke, Frank Jahnke, and Weng W. Chow
49 Nonlinear Dynamics in Quantum Photonic Structures
Gabriela Slavcheva and Mirella Koleva
PART X Mathematical Methods
50 Drift-Diffusion Models
Patricio Farrell, Nella Rotundo, Duy Hai Doan, Markus Kantner, Jürgen Fuhrmann, and Thomas Koprucki
51 Monte Carlo Device Simulations
Katerina Raleva, Abdul R. Shaik, Raghuraj Hathwar, Akash Laturia, Suleman S. Qazi, Robin Daugherty, Dragica Vasileska, and Stephen M. Goodnick
52 Photonics
Frank Schmidt
Biography
Hear from Dr. Piprek at this Q&A session: https://www.crcpress.com/go/editor_qa_session_joachim_piprek
Joachim Piprek received his Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, in 1986. For more than two decades, he worked in industry and academia on modeling, simulation, and analysis of various optoelectronic devices. Dr. Piprek has taught graduate courses at universities in Germany, Sweden, and in the United States. He was invited guest editor for several journal issues on optoelectronic device simulation and currently serves as an executive editor of Optical and Quantum Electronics as well as an associate editor for the Journal of Computational Electronics. Dr. Piprek is founder and co-chair of the annual conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices and he has also (co-)chaired several SPIE conferences. He has published 3 books, 6 book chapters, 4 patents, and more than 200 research papers.
