Long-Wavelength Infrared Semiconductor Lasers

✍ Scribed by D. R. Vij(eds.)

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 406
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Long-wavelength Infrared Semiconductor Lasers provides a comprehensive review of the current status of semiconductor coherent sources emitting in the mid-to far-infrared spectrum and their applications. It includes three topics not covered in any previous book: far-infrared emission from photo-mixers as well as from hot-hole lasers, and InP-based lasers emitting beyond two micrometers. Semiconductor lasers emitting at more than two micrometers have many applications such as in trace gas analysis, environmental monitoring, and industrial process control. Because of very rapid progress in recent years, until this book no comprehensive information beyond scattered journal articles is available at present.Content:
Chapter 1 Coherent Semiconductor Sources in the Long?Wavelength Infrared Spectrum (pages 1–17): Hong K. Choi
Chapter 2 2?µm Wavelength Lasers Employing InP?based Strained?Layer Quantum Wells (pages 19–68): Manabu Mitsuhara and Mamoru Oishi
Chapter 3 Antimonide Mid?IR Lasers (pages 69–143): Linda J. Olafsen, I. Vurgaftman and J. R. Meyer
Chapter 4 Lead?Chalcogenide?based Mid?Infrared Diode Lasers (pages 145–216): Uwe Peter Schie?L, Joachim John and Patrick J. McCann
Chapter 5 InP and GaAs?Based Quantum Cascade Lasers (pages 217–278): Jerome Faist and Carlo Sirtori
Chapter 6 Widely Tunable Far?Infrared Hot?Hole Semiconductor Lasers (pages 279–350): Erik Brundermann
Chapter 7 Continuous THz Generation with Optical Heterodyning (pages 351–386): John C. Pearson, K. A. McIntosh and S. Verghese