Semiconductor lasers : fundamentals and applications /

Semiconductor lasers have important applications in numerous fields, including engineering, biology, chemistry and medicine. They form the backbone of the optical telecommunications infrastructure supporting the internet, and are used in information storage devices, bar-code scanners, laser printers...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Baranov, Alexei, Tournié, Eric, 1962-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Philadelphia, PA : Woodhead Publishing, 2013.
Series:Woodhead Publishing series in electronic and optical materials ; no. 33.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Principles of semiconductor lasers / P. Blood
  • Photonic crystal lasers / Y. Zhang and M. Lončar
  • High-power semiconductor lasers / M. Fallahi and R. Bedford
  • Semiconductor laser beam combining / B. Liu, P. Colet and Y. Braiman
  • Ultrafast pulse generation by semiconductor lasers / E.U. Rafailov and E. Avrutin
  • Nonpolar and semipolar group III-nitride lasers / D. Feezell and S. Nakamura
  • Advanced self-assembled indium arsenide (InAs) quantum-dot lasers / M. Sugawara, Y. Arakawa and K. Tanabe
  • Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) / K.D. Choquette
  • Semiconductor disk lasers (VECSELs) / J.E. Hastie, S. Calvez and M.D. Dawson
  • Hybrid silicon lasers / D. Liang and J.E. Bowers
  • Gallium antimonide (GaSb)-based type-I quantum well diode lasers : recent development and prospects / G. Belenky, L. Shterengas, M.V. Kisin and T. Hosoda
  • Interband cascade (IC) lasers / R.Q. Yang
  • Terahertz (THz) quantum cascade lasers / S. Barbieri and S. Kumar
  • Whispering gallery mode lasers / A. Monakhov and N. Sablina
  • Tunable mid-infrared laser absorption spectroscopy / F.K. Tittel and R. Lewicki.