Semiconductor Integrated Optics for Switching Light (Second Edition) provides concise description of the physics and engineering of semiconductor optical waveguides for photonic and electronic switching with a focus on optical communication applications. It provides Python notebooks that illustrate the concepts discussed in the book. The book includes the following topics: linear and nonlinear optics, linear electro-optic effect electroabsorption and electrorefraction, nonlinear refraction, nonlinear optical devices.

Key Features

• Comprehensive introduction to the research literature on semiconductor integrated optics

• State of the art introduction into how this technology is deployed to make devices for optical communication systems

• Software – the Mathematica and Python notebooks which give the reader not only insight into how existing devices operate but also tools that can be used to design new devices

• Unique and cogent combination of fundamental physical principles and applications of semiconductor optical waveguides