Optical Materials and Applications

Index

A

Abbe’s numbers, 88

absorbance, light propagation, 13–14

absorption

indirect allowed transition, 43

intensity, 40–41

lattice vibration absorption intensities, 56

Nd:YAG lasers, 138

saturation, site-controlled quantum dots, 258–260

absorption bands, 37, 121

absorption coefficient

direct allowed transition, 26–27

direct forbidden transition, 28

excitons, direct transition, 40–41

excitons, indirect transition, 42

extinction coefficient, 83

free carrier absorption, 39

indirect allowed transition, 30–31, 42

indirect forbidden transition, 31, 43

lattice vibration absorption, 47–49

microcrystal, 127

one phonon selection rule/absorption coefficient, 48–49

third-order nonlinear optics, 121

absorption constant, 82–85

absorption edges

direct forbidden ...