Picosecond Electronics and Optoelectronics: Proceedings of the Topical Meeting Lake Tahoe, Nevada, March 13–15, 1985(21 Springer Series in Electronics and Photonics)

Over the past decade, we have witnessed a number of spectacular advances in the fabrication of crystalline semiconductor devices due mainly to the pro­ gress of the different techni ques of heteroepitaxy. The di scovery of two­ dimensional behavior of electrons led to the development of a new breed of ultrafast electronic and optical devices, such as modulation doped FETs, permeable base transistors, and double heterojunction transistors. Comparable progress has been made in the domain of cryoelectronics, ultrashort pulse generation, and ultrafast diagnostics. Dye lasers can generate 8 fs signals after compression, diode lasers can be modulated at speeds close to 20 GHz and electrical signals are characterized with subpicosecond accuracy via the electro-optic effect. Presently, we are experiencing an important interplay between the field of optics and electronics; the purpose of this meeting was to foster and enhance the interaction between the two disciplines. It was logical to start the conference by presenting to the two different audiences, i. e. , electronics and optics, the state-of-the-art in the two res­ pective fields and to highlight the importance of optical techniques in the analysis of physical processes and device performances. One of the leading techniques in this area is the electro-optic sampling technique. This optical technique has been used to characterize transmission lines and GaAs devices. Carrier transport in semiconductors is of fundamental importance and some of its important aspects are stressed in these proceedings.

Table of Contents:
I Ultrafast Optics and Electronics.- Ultrafast Optical Electronics: From Femtoseconds to Terahertz. (With 3 Figures).- Prospects of High-Speed Semiconductor Devices. (With 6 Figures).- The Role of Ultrashort Optical Pulses in High-Speed Electronics. (With 2 Figures).- GaAs Integrated Circuit Technology for High Speed Analog and Digital Electronics. (With 7 Figures).- Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor Technology for High-Speed Integrated Circuits. (With 5 Figures).- Permeable Base Transistor. (With 6 Figures).- Two Dimensional E-Field Mapping with Subpicosecond Resolution. (With 4 Figures).- Picosecond Electrooptic Sampling and Harmonic Mixing in GaAs. (With 3 Figures).- Characterization of TEGFETs and MESFETs Using the Electrooptic Sampling Techniques. (With 4 Figures).- Picosecond Electro-Electron Optic Oscilloscope. (With 5 Figures).- Picosecond Optoelectronic Diagnostics of Field Effect Transistors. (With 4 Figures).- Time-Domain Measurements for Silicon Intergrated Circuit Testing Using Photoconductors. (With 3 Figures).- Modeling of Picosecond Pulse Propagation on Silicon Integrated Circuits. (With 4 Figures).- II High-Speed Phenomena in Bulk Semiconductors.- Picosecond Processes in Carrier Transport Theory. (With 4 Figures).- Carrier-Carrier Interaction and Picosecond Phenomena in Polar Semiconductors. (With 4 Figures).- Subpicosecond Raman Spectroscopy of Electron-LO Phonon Dynamics in GaAs. (With 3 Figures).- Acoustic Phonon Generation in the Picosecond Dynamics of Dense Electron-Hole Plasmas in InGaAsP Films. (With 3 Figures).- Picosecond Time-Resolved Photoemission Study of the InP (110) Surface. (With 2 Figures).- Monte Carlo Investigation of Hot Carriers Generated by Subpicosecond Laser Pulses in Schottky Barrier Diodes. (With 2 Figures).- III Quantum Structures and Applications.- Properties of GaAlAs/GaAs Quantum Well Heterostructures Grown by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition.- Molecular Beam Epitaxy Materials for High-Speed Digital Heterostructure Devices. (With 4 Figures).- New High-Speed Quantum Well and Variable Gap Superlattice Devices. (With 18 Figures).- Electric Field-Induced Decrease of Exciton Lifetimes in GaAs Quantum Wells. (With 2 Figures).- Reduction of Electron-Phonon Scattering Rates by Total Spatial Quantization. (With 3 Figures).- Hot Electron Diffusion in Superlattices. (With 3 Figures).- Time-Resolved Photoluminescence of GaAs/AlxGa1?xAs Quantum Well Structures Grown by Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition. (With 5 Figures).- A Study of Exciton and Carrier Dynamics and a Demonstration of One-Picosecond Optical NOR Gate Operation of a GaAs-AlGaAs Device. (With 2 Figures).- Exciton-Exciton Interaction in GaAs-GaAlAs Superlattices. (With 3 Figures).- IV Picosecond Diode Lasers.- An InGaAsP 1.55 ?m Mode-Locked Laser with a Single-Mode Fiber Output. (With 7 Figures).- Fast Multiple Quantum Well Absorber for Mode Locking of Semiconductor Lasers. (With 3 Figures).- Suppression of Timing and Energy Fluctuations in a Modelocked Semiconductor Laser by cw Injection. (With 5 Figures).- Parametric Oscillations in Semiconductor Lasers.- V Optoelectronics and Photoconductive Switching.- Ultrafast Traveling-Wave Light Modulators with Reduced Velocity Mismatch. (With 4 Figures).- Modulation of an Optical Beam by a Second Optical Beam in Biased Semi-Insulating GaAs. (With 6 Figures).- 22-GHz Bandwidth InGaAs/InP PIN Photodiodes (With 4 Figures).- An Ultrafast Diffusion-Driven Detector. (With 1 Figure).- Picosecond Photoconductivity in Polycrystalline CdTe Films Prepared by UV-Enhanced OMCVD. (With 3Figures).- High-Speed Internal Photoemission Detectors Enhanced by Grating Coupling to Surface Plasma Waves. (With 3 Figures).- Submicron-Gap Photoconductive Switching in Silicon. (With 4 Figures).- Hertzian Dipole Measurements with InP Photoconductors. (With 3 Figures).- Pulse Waveform Standards for Electro-Optics.- High-Speed Optoelectronic Track-and-Hold Circuits in Hybrid Signal Processors for Wideband Radar. (With 4 Figures).- Optoelectronic Modulation of Millimeter Waves in a Silicon-on-Sapphire Waveguide. (With 4 Figures).- Direct DC to RF Conversion by Impulse Excitation of a Resonant Cavity. (With 4 Figures).- Kilovolt Sequential Waveform Generation by Picosecond Optoelectronic Switching in Silicon. (With 4 Figures).- Femtosecond Nonlinearities of Standard Optical Glasses. (With 3 Figures).- VI Cryoelectronics.- High-Speed Analog Signal Processing with Superconductive Circuits. (With 7 Figures).- Picosecond Sampling with Josephson Junctions. (With 5 Figures).- Transmission Line Designs with a Measured Step Response of 3ps per Centimeter. (With 5 Figures).- Development of a Picosecond Cryo-Sampler Using Electro-Optic Techniques. (With 4 Figures).- Picosecond Josephson Logic Gates for Digital LSIs. (With 5 Figures).- Index of Contributors.