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Nonclassical Light from Semiconductor Lasers and LEDs

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. Jungsang Kim

    1. Bell Laboratories Lucent Technologies, MurrayHill, USA

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  2. Seema Somani

    1. Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, USA

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  3. Yoshihisa Yamamoto

    1. Stanford University Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford, USA

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  • This book is the most advanced state-of-the-art report on nonclassical light generation
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Photonics (PHOTONICS, volume 5)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Nonclassical Light

    • Jungsang Kim, Seema Somani, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
    Pages 1-11

  3. Noise of p—n Junction Light Emitters

    • Jungsang Kim, Seema Somani, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
    Pages 13-30

  4. Sub-Poissonian Light Generation in Light-Emitting Diodes

    • Jungsang Kim, Seema Somani, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
    Pages 31-40

  5. Amplitude-Squeezed Light Generation in Semiconductor Lasers

    • Jungsang Kim, Seema Somani, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
    Pages 41-56

  6. Excess Intensity Noise of a Semiconductor Laser with Nonlinear Gain and Loss

    • Jungsang Kim, Seema Somani, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
    Pages 57-75

  7. Transverse-Junction-Stripe Lasers for Squeezed Light Generation

    • Jungsang Kim, Seema Somani, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
    Pages 77-88

  8. Sub-Shot-Noise FM Spectroscopy

    • Jungsang Kim, Seema Somani, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
    Pages 89-105

  9. Sub-Shot-Noise FM Noise Spectroscopy

    • Jungsang Kim, Seema Somani, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
    Pages 107-122

  10. Sub-Shot-Noise Interferometry

    • Jungsang Kim, Seema Somani, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
    Pages 123-136

  11. Coulomb Blockade Effect in Mesoscopic p-n Junctions

    • Jungsang Kim, Seema Somani, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
    Pages 137-154

  12. Single-Photon Generation in a Single-Photon Turnstile Device

    • Jungsang Kim, Seema Somani, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
    Pages 155-178

  13. Single-Photon Detection with Visible-Light Photon Counter

    • Jungsang Kim, Seema Somani, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
    Pages 179-205

  14. Future Prospects

    • Jungsang Kim, Seema Somani, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
    Pages 207-219

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 221-244
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The quantum statistical properties of light generated in a semiconductor laser and a light-emitting diode (LED) have been a ?eld of intense research for more than a decade. This research monograph discusses recent research activities in nonclassical light generation based on semiconductor devices, performed mostly at Stanford University. When a semiconductor material is used as the active medium to generate photons, as in semiconductor lasers and LEDs, the ?ow of carriers (electrons andholes)isconvertedintoa?owofphotons. Providedthattheconversionis fast and e?cient, the statistical properties of the carriers (“pump noise”) can be transferred to the photons; if pump noise can be suppressed to below the shot noise value, the noise in the photon output can also be suppressed below thePoissonlimit. Sinceelectronsandholesarefermionsandhavecharges,the statisticalpropertiesoftheseparticlescanbesigni?cantlydi?erentfromthose of photons if the structure of the light-emitting device is properly designed to provide interaction between these particles. There has been a discrepancy between the theoretical understanding and experimental observation of noise in a macroscopic resistor until very - cently. The dissipation that electrons experience in a resistor is expected to accompany the ?uctuation due to partition noise, leading to shot noise in the large dissipation limit as is the case with photons. Experimental observation shows that thermal noise, expected only in a thermal-equilibrium situation (zero-bias condition), is the only source of noise featured by a resistor, - dependent of the current.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Bell Laboratories Lucent Technologies, MurrayHill, USA

    Jungsang Kim

  • Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, USA

    Seema Somani

  • Stanford University Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford, USA

    Yoshihisa Yamamoto

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