Mid-infrared Optoelectronics: Materials, Devices, and Applications

Mid-infrared Optoelectronics: Materials, Devices, and Applications addresses the new materials, devices and applications that have emerged over the last decade, along with exciting areas of research. Sections cover fundamentals, light sources, photodetectors, new approaches, and the application of mid-IR devices, with sections discussing LEDs, laser diodes, and quantum cascade lasers, mid-infrared optoelectronics, emerging research areas, dilute bismide and nitride alloys, Group-IV materials, gallium nitride heterostructures, and new nonlinear materials. Finally, the most relevant applications of mid-infrared devices are reviewed in industry, gas sensing, spectroscopy, and imaging.

This book presents a key reference for materials scientists, engineers and professionals working in R&D in the area of semiconductors and optoelectronics.

Provides a comprehensive overview of mid-infrared photodetectors and light sources and the latest materials and devicesReviews emerging areas of research in the field of mid-infrared optoelectronics, including new materials, such as wide bandgap materials, chalcogenides and new approaches, like heterogeneous integrationIncludes information on the most relevant applications in industry, like gas sensing, spectroscopy and imaging

Part One - Fundamentals

1. The physics of mid-infrared semiconductor materials and heterostructures

Part Two - Light sources

2. Mid-infrared light-emitting diodes

3. Interband mid-infrared lasers

4. Quantum cascade lasers

5. High-brightness quantum cascade lasers

6. Mid-infrared frequency conversion in quasiphase matched semiconductors

Part Three - Photodetectors

7. HgCdTe photodetectors

8. Quantum cascade detectors: A review

9. InAs/GaSb type II superlattices: A developing material system for third generation of IR imaging

10. InAsSb-based photodetectors

Part Four - New approaches

11. Dilute bismide and nitride alloys for mid-IR optoelectronic devices

12. Group IV photonics using (Si)GeSn technology toward mid-IR applications

13. Intersubband transitions in GaN-based heterostructures

14. III–V/Si mid-IR photonic integrated circuits

Part Five - Application of mid-IR devices

15. Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy for gas sensing applications

16. Mid-infrared gas-sensing systems and applications