本书在第二版基础上进行了更新和扩展，对红外光-可见光-紫外光范围内的半导体光学作了回顾和总结，内容包括：线性和非线性光学性质，动力学特性，磁光学和电光学，强激励效应，一些应用、实验技术和群理论。本书的数学知识基础、简单，读者可以直观理解实验结果和所用到的处理技术。本书涉及物理学、材料科学和光电子学等相关领域。新增(或修改)的内容包括一些最新的进展：空腔极化、光子结构、半导体Bloch方程，并对大块材料相关的章节进行了修改和更新。

本书是《国外物理名著系列》之一。本书几乎涉及了近代物理学中半导体光学的所有领域，既有阐述学科基本理论的经典名著，也有反映某一学科专题前沿的专著。基础理论方面强调“经典”，选择了那些经得起时间检验、对物理学的发展产生重要影响、现在还不“过时”的著作；反映物理学某一领域进展的方面强调“前沿”和“热点”，根据国内物理学研究发展的实际情况，选择了能够体现相关学科最新进展，对有关方向的科研人员和研究生有重要参考价值的图书。本书还对部分目录标题和练习题进行了少量的翻译和注释，以方便国内读者的阅读和理解。

1、Introduction

 1.1 Aims and Concepts

 1.2 Outline of the Book and a lot of References

 1.3 Some Personal Thoughts

 1.4 Problems

 References to Chap.1

2、Maxwell's Equations,Photons and the Density of States

 2.1 Maxwell's Equations

 2.2 Electromagnetic Radiation in Vacuum

 2.3 Electromagnetic Radiation in Matter; Linear Optics

 2.4 Transverse,Longitudinal and Surface Waves

 2.5 Photons and Some Aspects of Quantum Mechanics and of Dispersion Relations

 2.6 Density of States and Occupation Probabilities

 2.7 Problems

 References to Chap.2

3、Interaction of Light with Matter

 3.1 Macroscopic Aspects for Solids

3.1.1 Boundary Conditions

3.1.2 Laws of Reflection and Refraction

3.1.3 Noether's Theorem and Some Aspects of Conservation Laws

3.1.4 Reflection and Transmission at an Interface and Fresnel's Formulae

3.1.5 Extinction and Absorption of Light

3.1.6 Transmission Through a Slab of Matter and Fabry Perot Modes

3.1.7 Birefringence and Dichroism

3.1.8 Optical Activity

 3.2 Microscopic Aspects

3.2.1 Absorption,Stimulated and Spontaneous Emission,Virtual Excitation

3.2.2 Perturbative Treatment of the Linear Interaction of Light with Matter

 3.3 Problems

 References to Chap.3

4、Ensemble of Uncoupled Oscillators

 4.1 Equations of Motion and the Dielectric Function

 4.2 Corrections Due to Quantum Mechanics and Local Fields

 4.3 Spectra of the Dielectric Function and of the Complex Index of Refraction

 4.4 The Spectra of Reflection and Transmission

 4.5 Interaction of Close Lying Resonances

 4.6 Problems

 References to Chap.4

5、The Concept of Polaritons

 5.1 Polaritons as New Quasiparticles

 5.2 Dispersion Relation of Polaritons

 5.3 Polaritons in Solids,Liquids and Gases and from the IR to the X-ray Region

5.3.1 Common Optical Properties of Polaritons

5.3.2 How the k-vector Develops

 5.4 Coupled Oscillators and Polaritons with Spatial Dispersion

5.4.1 Dielectric Function and the Polariton States with Spatial Dispersion

5.4.2 Reflection and Transmission and Additional Boundary Conditions

 5.5 Real and Imaginary Parts of Wave Vector and Frequency

 5.6 Surface Polaritons

 5.7 Problems

 References to Chap.5

6、Kramers-Kronig Relations

 6.1 General Concepts

 6.2 Problem

 References to Chap.6

7、Crystals,Lattices,Lattice Vibrations and Phonons

 7.1 Adiabatic Approximation

 7.2 Lattices and Crystal Structures in Real and Reciprocal Space

 7.3 Vibrations of a String

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8、Electrons in a Periodic Crystal

9、Excitons,Biexcitons and Trions

10、Plasmons,Magnons and some Further Elementary Excitations

11、Optical Properties of Phonons

12、Optical Properties of Plasmons,Plasmon-Phonon Mixed States and of Magnons

13、Optical Properties of Intrinsic Excitons in Bulk Semiconductors

14、Optical Properties of Bound and Localized Excitons and of Defect States

15、Optical Properties of Excitons in Structures of Reduced Dimensionality

16、Excitons Under the Influence of External Fields

17、From Cavity Polaritons to Photonic Crystals

18、Review of the Linear Optical Properties

19、High Excitation Effects and Nonlinear Optics

20、The Intermediate Density Regime

21、The Electron-Hole Plasma

22、Stimulated Emission and Laser Processes

23、Time Resolved Spectroscopy

24、Optical Bistability,Optical Computing,Spintronics and Quantum Computing

25、Experimental Methods

26、Group Theory in Semiconductor Optics

27、Semiconductor Bloch Equations

The Final Problem

Subject Index