Fundamentals of Semiconductor Lasers

• Main Author: Numai, Takahiro. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2004.
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 93
• Subjects: Physics.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Laser Technology, Photonics.; Optical and Electronic Materials.
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Fundamentals of Semiconductor Lasers explains the physics and fundamental characteristics of semiconductor lasers with regards to systems applications. The detailed and comprehensive presentation is unique in that it encourages the reader to consider different semiconductor lasers from different ang...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Band Structures
• Optical Transitions
• Optical Waveguides
• Optical Resonators
• Fundamentals of Semiconductor Lasers
• Dynamic Single Mode LDs
• Quantum Well LDs Control of Spontaneous Emission
• Appendices: Cyclotron Resonance
• Time-Independent Perturbation Theory
• Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory
• TE-Mode and TM-Mode
• Characteristic Matrix in Discrete Approach
• Free Carrier Absorption and Plasma Effect
• Relative Intensity Noise (RIN)
• References
• Index.