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 and many other everyday products. Semiconductor lasers: Fundamentals and applications is a comprehensive review of this vital technology.Part one introduces the fundamentals of semiconductor lasers, beginning with key principles before going on to discuss photonic crystal lasers, high power…mehr
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 and many other everyday products. Semiconductor lasers: Fundamentals and applications is a comprehensive review of this vital technology.Part one introduces the fundamentals of semiconductor lasers, beginning with key principles before going on to discuss photonic crystal lasers, high power semiconductor lasers and laser beams, and the use of semiconductor lasers in ultrafast pulse generation. Part two then reviews applications of visible and near-infrared emitting lasers. Nonpolar and semipolar GaN-based lasers, advanced self-assembled InAs quantum dot lasers and vertical cavity surface emitting lasers are all considered, in addition to semiconductor disk and hybrid silicon lasers. Finally, applications of mid- and far-infrared emitting lasers are the focus of part three. Topics covered include GaSb-based type I quantum well diode lasers, interband cascade and terahertz quantum cascade lasers, whispering gallery mode lasers and tunable mid-infrared laser absorption spectroscopy.With its distinguished editors and international team of expert contributors, Semiconductor lasers is a valuable guide for all those involved in the design, operation and application of these important lasers, including laser and telecommunications engineers, scientists working in biology and chemistry, medical practitioners, and academics working in this field.
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Alexei Baranov is Research Director of Research at CNRS, France.
Eric Tournié is a professor of electrical engineering and photonics at the University of Montpellier and a senior member of Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He is an expert on the epitaxial growth of compound semiconductor heterostructures and devices. His interest has always been the development of new nanostructures for applications in optoelectronic devices.
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Preface
Part I: Fundamentals of semiconductor lasers
Chapter 1: Principles of semiconductor lasers
Abstract:
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The basic laser diode
1.3 Key physical concepts
1.4 Absorption and gain in low dimensional semiconductor structures
1.5 Recombination processes
1.6 Gain-current relations
1.7 Temperature dependence of threshold current
1.8 Rate equations
1.9 Future trends
1.10 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2: Photonic crystal lasers
Abstract:
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Lasing threshold of photonic crystal lasers (PhCLs)
2.3 Photonic crystal nanobeam lasers
2.4 Photonic crystal disk lasers
2.5 Conclusion and future trends
2.6 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3: High-power semiconductor lasers
Abstract:
3.1 Introduction: theory and design concept
3.2 Single emitters
3.3 Array concept for power scaling
3.4 Conclusion and future trends
Chapter 4: Semiconductor laser beam combining
Abstract:
4.1 Introduction to laser beam combining
4.2 Experiments on external cavity broad-area laser diode arrays
4.3 Modeling the dynamics of a single-mode semiconductor laser array in an external cavity
4.4 Conclusion
4.5 Acknowledgments
Chapter 5: Ultrafast pulse generation by semiconductor lasers
Abstract:
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Gain-switching
5.3 Important developments in gain-switched semiconductor lasers (SLs)
5.4 Q-switching
5.5 Mode-locking (ML) in semiconductor lasers: an overview
5.6 The main predictions of mode-locked laser theory
5.7 Important tendencies in optimising the ML laser performance
5.8 Novel mode-locking principles
5.9 Overview of applications of mode-locked diode lasers
5.10 Conclusion
5.11 Acknowledgements
Part II: Visible and near-infrared lasers and their applications
Chapter 6: Nonpolar and semipolar group III-nitride lasers
Abstract:
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Applications of group III-nitride lasers
6.3 Introduction to properties of III-nitrides
6.4 Optical properties of nonpolar and semipolar III-nitrides
6.5 Substrates, crystal growth and materials issues
6.6 Optical waveguides and loss
6.7 Fabrication techniques
6.8 Nonpolar and semipolar laser history and performance
