| | Maxwell??™s Equations, Photons and the Density of States |
| | Electromagnetic Radiation in Vacuum |
| | Electromagnetic Radiation in Matter; Linear Optics |
| | Transverse, Longitudinal and Surface Waves |
| | Photons and Some Aspects of Quantum Mechanics and of Dispersion Relations |
| | Density of States and Occupation Probabilities |
| | Interaction of Light with Matter |
| | The Concept of Polaritons |
| | Ensemble of Uncoupled Oscillators |
| | Equations of Motion and the Dielectric Function |
| | Corrections Due to Quantum Mechanics and Local Fields |
| | Spectra of the Dielectric Function and of the Complex Index of Refraction |
| | The Spectra of Reflection and Transmission |
| | Interaction of Close Lying Resonances |
| | Electrons in a Periodic Crystal |
| | Stimulated Emission and Laser Processes |
| | Basic Concepts of Laser Diodes and Present Research Trends |
| | Optical Properties of Phonons |
| | Review of the Linear Optical Properties |
| | Plasmons, Magnons and some Further Elementary Excitations |
| | Plasmons, Pair Excitations and Plasmon-Phonon Mixed States |
| | Magnons and Magnetic Polarons |
| | Optical Properties of Intrinsic Excitons in Bulk Semiconductors |
| | Optical Properties of Plasmons, Plasmon-Phonon Mixed States and of Magnons |
| | Plasmon-Phonon Mixed States |
| | Plasmons in Systems of Reduced Dimensionality |
| | Optical Properties of Magnons |
| | Optical Bistability, Optical Computing, Spintronics and Quantum Computing |
| | Excitons Under the Influence of External Fields |
| | From Cavity Polaritons to Photonic Crystals |
| | Optical Properties of Excitons in Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
| | Coupled Quantum Wells and Superlattices |
| | High Excitation Effects and Nonlinear Optics |
| | Introduction and Definition |
| | General Scenario for High Excitation Effects |
| | Beyond the c(n) Approximations |
| | The Intermediate Density Regime |
| | Crystals, Lattices, Lattice Vibrations and Phonons |
| | Time Resolved Spectroscopy |
| | Optical Properties of Bound and Localized Excitons and of Defect States |
| | Bound-Exciton and Multi-exciton Complexes |
| | Donor-Acceptor Pairs and Related Transitions |
| | Internal Transitions and Deep Centers |
| | Excitons in Disordered Systems |
| | Group Theory in Semiconductor Optics |
| | Semiconductor Bloch Equations |
| | Excitons, Biexcitons and Trions |
| | Wannier and Frenkel Excitons |
| | Corrections to the Simple Exciton Model |
| | The Influence of Dimensionality |
| | Excitons in Disordered Systems |
| | Optical Properties of Intrinsic Excitons in Bulk Semiconductors |
| | Excitons with strong Oscillator Strength |
| | Consequences of Spatial Dispersion |
| | Spectra of Reflection, Transmission and Luminescence |
| | Spectroscopy in Momentum Space |
| | Surface-Exciton Polaritons |
| | Excitons in Organic Semiconductors and in Insulators |
| | Optical Transitions Above the Fundamental Gap and Core Excitons |
| | Forbidden Exciton Transitions |
| | Direct Gap Semiconductors |
| | Triplet States and Related Transitions |
| | Parity Forbidden Band-to-Band Transitions |
| | Indirect Gap Semiconductors |
| | Intraexcitonic Transitions |
| | >>Note: The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. |
| | Optical Properties of Phonons |
| | Phonons in Bulk Semiconductors |
| | Surface Phonon Polaritons |
| | Defects and Localized Phonon Modes |
| | Backfolded Acoustic Phonons |
| | >>Note: The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. |
| | Electrons in a Periodic Crystal |
| | Metals, Semiconductors, Insulators |
| | An Overview of Semiconducting Materials |
| | Electrons and Holes in Crystals as New Quasiparticles |
| | The Effective-Mass Concept |
| | The Polaron Concept and Other Electron-Phonon Interaction Processes |
| | Some Basic Approaches to Band Structure Calculations |
| | Bandstructures of Real Semiconductors |
| | Density of States, Occupation Probability and Critical Points |
| | Electrons and Holes in Quantum Wells and Superlattices |
| | Growth of Quantum Wells and of Superlattices |
| | Defects, Defect States and Doping |
| | Disordered Systems and Localization |
| | >>Note: The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. |
| | Crystals, Lattices, Lattice Vibrations and Phonons |
| | Lattices and Crystal Structures in Real and Reciprocal Space |
| | Three-Dimensional Crystals |
| | Quantization of Lattice Vibrations: Phonons and the Concept of Quasiparticles |
| | The Density of States and Phonon Statistics |
| | Defects and Localized Phonon Modes |
| | Phonons in Superlattices and in other Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
| | >>Note: The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. |
| | The Concept of Polaritons |
| | Polaritons as New Quasiparticles |
| | Dispersion Relation of Polaritons |
| | Polaritons in Solids, Liquids and Gases and from the IR to the X-ray Region |
| | Common Optical Properties of Polaritons |
| | How the k-vector Develops |
| | Coupled Oscillators and Polaritons with Spatial Dispersion |
| | Dielectric Function and the Polariton States with Spatial Dispersion |
| | Reflection and Transmission and Additional Boundary Conditions |
| | Real and Imaginary Parts of Wave Vector and Frequency |
| | >>Note: The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. |
| | Interaction of Light with Matter |
| | Macroscopic Aspects for Solids |
| | Laws of Reflection and Refraction |
| | Noether??™s Theorem and Some Aspects of Conservation Laws |
| | Reflection and Transmission at an Interface and Fresnel??™s Formulae |
| | Extinction and Absorption of Light |
| | Transmission Through a Slab of Matter and Fabry Perot Modes |
| | Birefringence and Dichroism |
| | Absorption, Stimulated and Spontaneous Emission, Virtual Excitation |
| | Perturbative Treatment of the Linear Interaction of Light with Matter |
| | >>Note: The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. |
| | Semiconductor Bloch Equations |
| | Dynamics of a Two-Level System |
| | Wave-Function Description |
| | Polarization and Inversion as State Variables |
| | Linear Response of a Two Level System |
| | Semiconductor Bloch Equations |
| | >>Note: The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. |
| | Group Theory in Semiconductor Optics |
| | Some Aspects of Abstract Group Theory for Crystals |
| | Some Abstract Definitions |
| | Classification of the Group Elements |
| | Isomorphism and Homomorphism of Groups |
| | Theory of Representations and of Characters |
| | Hamilton Operator and Group Theory |
| | Applications to Semiconductors Optics |
| | Some Selected Group Tables |
| | >>Note: The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. |
| | Linear Optical Spectroscopy |
| | Equipment for Linear Spectroscopy |
| | Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy |
| | Equipment for Nonlinear Optics |
| | Experimental Techniques and Results |
| | Pump-and-Probe Beam Spectroscopy |
| | Four-Wave Mixing and Laser-Induced Gratings |
| | Time-Resolved Spectroscopy |
| | Equipment for Time-Resolved Spectroscopy |
| | Experimental Techniques and Results |
| | Intraband and Intersubband Relaxation |
| | Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy |
| | Equipment for Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy |
| | Experimental Techniques and Results |
| | Spectroscopy Under the Influence of External Fields |
| | Equipment for Spectroscopy Under the Influence of External Fields |
| | Experimental Techniques and Results |
| | >>Note: The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. |
| | Optical Bistability, Optical Computing, Spintronics and Quantum Computing |
| | Basic Concepts and Mechanisms |
| | Dispersive Optical Bistability |
| | Optical Bistability Due to Bleaching |
| | Induced Absorptive Bistability |
| | Electro-Optic Bistability |
| | Device Ideas, Digital Optical Computing and Why It Failed |
| | >>Note: The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. |
| | Time Resolved Spectroscopy |
| | Decoherence and Phase Relaxation |
| | Determination of the Phase Relaxation Times |
| | Four-Wave Mixing Experiments |
| | Other Techniques and Coherent Processes |
| | Quantum Coherence, Coherent Control and Non-Markovian Decay |
| | Markovian versus Non-Markovian Damping |
| | Damping by LO Phonon Emission and Other Processes |
| | Intra-Subband and Inter-Subband Relaxation |
| | Formation Times of Various Collective Excitations |
| | Intraband and Inter-subband Relaxation |
| | >>Note: The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. |
| | Band Gap Renormalization and Phase Diagram |
| | Electron-Hole Plasmas in Bulk Semiconductors |
| | Electron-Hole Plasmas in Direct-Gap Semiconductors |
| | Electron-Hole Plasma in Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
| | Inter-subband Transitions in Unipolar and Bipolar Plasmas |
| | Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
| | >>Note: The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. |
| | The Intermediate Density Regime |
| | Two-Photon Absorption by Excitons |
| | Elastic and Inelastic Scattering Processes |
| | Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
| | Optical or ac Stark Effect |
| | Excitonic Bose-Einstein Condensation |
| | Attempts to find BEC in Bulk Semiconductors |
| | Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
| | Driven Excitonic Bose-Einstein Condensations |
| | Excitonic Insulators and Other Systems |
| | Photo-thermal Optical Nonlinearities |
| | >>Note: The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. |
| | From Cavity Polaritons to Photonic Crystals |
| | Photonic Crystals and Photonic Band Gap Structures |
| | Introduction to the Basic Concepts |
| | Realization of Photonic Crystals and Applications |
| | Photonic Atoms, Molecules and Crystals |
| | Further Developments of Photonic Crystals |
| | A Few Words about Metamaterials |
| | >>Note: The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. |
| | Excitons Under the Influence of External Fields |
| | Nonmagnetic Bulk Semiconductors |
| | Diluted Magnetic Bulk Semiconductors |
| | Semiconductor Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
| | Semiconductor Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
| | Structures of Reduced Dimensionality |
| | >>Note: The updated and enlarged new edition of this book provides an introduction to and an overview of semiconductor optics from the IR through the visible to the UV. It includes coverage of linear and nonlinear optical properties, dynamics, magneto- and electrooptics, high-excitation effects, some applications, experimental techniques and group theory. The mathematics is kept as elementary as possible. The subjects covered extend from physics to materials science and optoelectronics. New or updated chapters add coverage of current topics, while the chapters on bulk materials have been revised and updated. |
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