Semiconductor Laser Fundamentals
Weng W. Chow, Stephan W. Koch
This book presents an in-depth discussion of the semiconductor-laser gain medium. The optical and electronic properties of semiconductors, particularly semiconductor quantum-well systems, are analzyed in detail, covering a wide variety of near-infrared systems with or without strain, as well as wide-gap materials such as the group-III nitride compounds or the II-VI materials. The important bandstructure modifications and Coulomb interaction effects are discussed, including the solution of the longstanding semiconductor laser lineshape problem. Quantitative comparisons between measured and predicted gain/absorption and refractive index spectra for a wide variety of semiconductor-laser materials enable the theoretical results to be used directly in the engineering of advanced laser and amplifier structures. A walth of examples for many different material combinations bestow the book with quantitative and predictive value for a wide variety of applications.
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Année:
1999
Edition:
1
Editeur::
Springer
Langue:
english
Pages:
128
ISBN 10:
3540641661
ISBN 13:
9783540641667
Fichier:
PDF, 15.58 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 1999