Semiconductor Integrated Optics for Switching Light

Professor Charlie Ironside is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Curtin University (Western Australia). He received his PhD from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh) and in 1998 was appointed Professor of Quantum Electronics at the University of Glasgow. He has over 30 years of experience in semiconductor optoelectronics research and in particular, microfabrication of photonic components. He is a Fellow of the IET, a Fellow of the IOP, and senior member of IEEE. Along with hundreds of papers, he has co-authored five patents.

1. Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Switching
1.3 Linear optics: response theory and the Kramers-Kronig transformation
1.4 Nonlinear optics
1.5 Integrated optics - Semiconductor Optical waveguides
1.6 Outline of book
2. Linear Electro-optic effect, Electroabsorption and Electrorefraction
2.1 Dielectricifcation: Linear Electro-optic effect, Electrorefraction and Electroabsorption
2.2 Electroabsorption & Electrorefraction Effects
2.3 The Electroabsorption Modulator (EAM)
2.3.1 The Electroabsorption modulator (EAM) Franz-Keldysh effect in bulk semiconductor
2.4 Electro-refractive modulators
2.4.1 The directional coupler
2.4.2 The integrated electro-refractive Mach-Zehnder interferometer
2.5 Conclusion
3. Nonlinear Refraction: 2nd and 3rd Order optical nonlinearities
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Cascade 2nd Order Optical nonlinearity nonlinear phase change
3.2.1 Theory of Cascade 2nd Order Optical nonlinearity
3.2.2 AlGaAs waveguide example of the cascade second harmonic effect
3.3 Two photon effects
3.3.1 Two Photon Absorption and nonlinear refraction
3.3.2 The AlxGa1-xAs example
3.3.3 Two photon gain
3.4. Conclusions