Fundamentals of Semiconductor Lasers

Preface - Band Structures (Introduction, Bulk Structures, Quantum Structures, Super Lattices), Optical Transitions (Introduction, Light Emitting Processes, Spontaneous Emission, Simulated Emission, and Absorption, Optical Gains), Optical Waveguides (Introduction, Two-Dimensional Optical Waveguides, Three-Dimensional Optical Waveguides), Optical Resonators (Introduction, Fabry-Perot Cavity, DFB and DBR), Fundamentals of Semiconductor Lasers (Key Elements in Semiconductor Lasers, Threshold Gain, Radiation Efficiency, Current versus Light-Output (I-L) Characteristics, Current versus Voltage (I-V) Characteristics, Derivative Characteristics, Polarization of LIght, Parameters and Specifications, Two-mode Operation, Transverse Modes, Longitudinal Modes, Modulation Characteristics, Noisesm Degradations and Lifetime), Dynamic Single Mode LDs (Introduction, DFB-LDs and DBR-LDs, Surface emitting LDs, Coupled Cavity LDs), Quantum Well LDs (Introduction, Features of Quantum Well LDs, Strained Quantum Well LDs, Requirements for Fabrication), Control of Spontaneous Emission (Introduction, Spntaneious Emission [Fermi's Golden Rule, Spontaneous Emission in a Free Space, Spontaneous Emission in a Microcavity, Fluctuations in the Vacuum Field] Microcavity LDs, Photon Recycling), Appendicies: 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