Semiconductor Lasers and Heterojunction LEDS

Abstract

There has been a long-felt need for an up to date and authoritative work on semiconductor lasers, which this book goes a long way to satisfying. Newcomers to the field as well as specialists will find in it a vast amount of useful and predominantly first-hand information, mainly on semiconductor lasers rather than LEDS, covering a wide variety of topics, starting with the fundamentals of luminescence, stimulated emission and the role of a laser resonator, proceeding via the practical aspects of laser design, performance and fabrication, and finishing with recent advances, including descriptions of the new semiconductor compounds for extending the laser's spectral range and a treatment of the distributed feedback laser.