Femtosecond Technology: From Basic Research to Application Prospects [Paperback]

Recent rapid advances in femtosecond technology have had a great impact on their industrial applications such as: ultrafast optoelectronic devices and optical telecommunication systems, ultrashort-pulse lasers and measurement systems, and the development of novel materials for ultrafast functions. In this book, a wealth of knowledge covering requirements in applications details of recent achievements in important technical areas is presented by world-prominent authors in a concise, systematic form. As a whole, this is the first comprehensive book on the emerging field of femtosecond technology.I Introduction.- I-1 Femtosecond Technology and Its Industrial Impact.- II Optoelectronics Technology Roadmap and Industry.- II-1 Technology Roadmap for the Japanese Opto-Electronics Industry.- II-2 Technology Roadmap for Optical Communication - A North American Perspective.- II-3 Structural Change in Industry and Reorganization of R&D Systems in Network-Oriented Societies.- III Ultrafast Optoelectronics for Telecommunications.- III-1 Femtosecond Semiconductor-Based Optoelectonic Devices for Optical Communications and Signal-Processing Systems.- III-2 Generation, Control and Processing of Ultrafast Optical Signals by Electrooptic Modulation/Deflection.- III-3 Subharmonic Mode-Locking of Semiconductor Lasers Operating at Millimetre-Wave Frequencies.- III-4 All-Optical Access Node Technologies.- III-5 Ultrafast All-Optical Switch Using Low-Temperature-Grown InGaAs/InAlAs Multiple-Quantum Wells.- III-6 High Bandwidth Photodetectors.- III-7 Coherent Tunable THz Oscillation by Nonlinear Optics.- III-8 Multi-Gap Photoconductive Switches Fabricated by a Scanning Probe Microscope.- IV Semiconductor Quantum Structures for Femtosecond Devices.- IV-1 High Speed Quantum Dot Lasers: Phonon Bottleneck Issue in Quantum Dot Lasers.- IV-2 Ultrafast Coherent Dynamics of Radiatively Coupled Excitons in Multiple Quantum Wells.- IV-3 Femtosecond Studies of Semiconductor Microcavities and VCSELlsë