Semiconductor-Laser Fundamentals: Physics of the Gain Materials

✍ Scribed by Dr. Weng W. Chow, Professor Dr. Stephan W. Koch (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 253
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 analyzed 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Basic Concepts....Pages 1-35
Free-Carrier Theory....Pages 36-71
Coulomb Effects....Pages 72-106
Correlation Effects....Pages 107-149
Bulk Band Structures....Pages 150-165
Quantum Wells....Pages 166-195
Applications....Pages 196-233
Back Matter....Pages 235-245

✦ Subjects

Laser Technology, Photonics;Quantum Optics;Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films;Complexity;Optical and Electronic Materials;Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices