Note: The following provides a suggested course description,
objectives, and an outline. These may be modified pending discussion with
the Faculty Chairs, proposing faculty, and other curriculum
reviewers.
Course Description: Optical processes in
semiconductors, spontaneous emission, absorption, gain, stimulated
emission. Principles of light emitting diodes, including transient
effects, spectral and spatial radiation fields. Principles of
semiconducting lasers; gain-current relationships, radiation fields,
optical confinement and transient effects.
