Heterostructure Lasers Part A

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents of Part B

Chapter 1 □ Introduction


1.1 Introductory Remarks


1.2 Demonstration of Stimulated Emission and Room Temperature Continuous-Wave Operation with Injection Lasers


1.3 Principles of Injection Laser Operation


1.4 Injection Lasers


1.5 Materials

References

Chapter 2 □ Optical Fields and Wave Propagation


2.1 Introduction


2.2 Basic Theory


2.3 Slab-Dielectric Waveguides


2.4 Wave Propagation in the Symmetric Three-Layer Slab Waveguide


2.5 Solution of the Eigenvalue Equation for the Symmetric Three-Layer Slab Waveguide


2.6 Zigzag-Ray Model and the Asymmetric Three-Layer Slab Waveguide


2.7 Beam Divergence


2.8 Facet Reflectivity


2.9 Four- and Five-Layer Heterostructure Waveguides


2.10 Distributed-Feedback Lasers


2.11 Concluding Comments

References

Chapter 3 □ Stimulated Emission in Semiconductors


3.1 Introduction


3.2 Relationships between Absorption, Stimulated Emission, and Spontaneous Emission


3.3 Transition Probability


3.4 Optical Absorption and Emission Rates in Semiconductors


3.5 The Concentration-Dependent Density of States


3.6 The Optical Matrix Element


3.7 Calculated Optical Spectra


3.8 Threshold Current Density


3.9 Concluding Comments

References

Chapter 4 □ Heterojunctions


4.1 Introduction


4.2 GaAs‒AlxGa1-xAs Band Structure


4.3 Heterojunction Energy Band Diagrams


4.4 Graded Heterojunctions


4.5 Electrical Properties


4.6 Carrier Confinement


4.7 Concluding Comments

References

Index to Part A

Index to Part B