Mid-Infrared Semiconductor Optoelectronics

Book Overview

Optoelectronic devices operating in the mid-infrared wavelength range offer applications in a variety of areas from environmental gas monitoring around oil rigs to the detection of narcotics. They could also be used for free-space optical communications, thermal imaging applications and the development of "homeland security" measures.

Mid-infrared Semiconductor Optoelectronics is an overview of the current status and technological development in this rapidly emerging area; the basic physics, some of the problems facing the design engineer and a comparison of possible solutions are laid out; the different lasers used as sources for mid-infrared technology are considered; recent work in detectors is reviewed; the last part of the book is concerned with applications.

With a world-wide authorship of experts working in many mid-infrared-related fields this book will be an invaluable reference for researchers and graduate students drawn from physics, electronic and electrical engineering and materials science.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849965617
• ISBN13: 9781849965613
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 2.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"