文档介绍：Semiconductor
Lasers II
Materials and Structures
OPTICS AND PHOTONICS
(formerly Quantum Electronics)
SERIES EDITORS
PAUL L. KELLEY
Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts
IVAN R KAMINOW
AT& T Bell Laboratories
Holmdel, New Jersey
GOVIND P. AGRAWAL
University of Rochester
Rochester, New York
CONTRIBUTORS
. Acket
Markus-Christian Amann
. Eliseev
Kenichi Iga
Fumio Koyama
David G. Mehuys
A. Valster
. van der Poel
plete list of titles in this series appears at the end of this volume.
Semiconductor
Lasers II
Materials and Structures
Edited by Eli Kapon
Institute of Micro and Optoelectronics
Department of Physics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
OPTICS AND PHOTONICS
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Semiconductor lasers : optics and photonics / edited by Eli Kapon.
p. am.
Includes indexes.
ISBN 0-12-397630-8 (v. 1).- ISBN 0-12-397631-6 (v. 2)
1. Semiconductor lasers. I. Kapon, Eli.
1998
'6--dc21 98-18270
CIP
Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
Preface xi
Chapter 1 Visible-Wavelength Laser Diodes
Introduction 1
Relevance of visible wavelength lasers 1
Thermal aspects; the temperature-dependence
of threshold curre