The Principles of Semiconductor Laser Diodes and Amplifiers. Analysis and Transmission Line Laser Modeling
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Author(s): H. Ghafouri-Shiraz
Publisher: Imperial College Press
ISBN: 1860943411
Format: softback
673pp
Price: £46.00
Review Date: 25 February 2004
Review: Here, the author concentrates on the basic theory of optical waveguides and semiconductor laser technology and how they are related. He begins with the state-of-the-art of optical fibre communications systems, including the historical development, the principles and applications of semiconductor laser amplifiers in optical fibre communications, the general optical system and the major advantages provided by this technology. He goes on to introduce the fundamentals and important performance characteristics of optical amplification and describes optical amplification in semiconductor laser diodes. Subsequent chapters cover: experimental studies on semiconductor laser diode amplifiers; novel semiconductor laser diode amplifier structure; picosecond pulse amplification in tapered-waveguided semiconductor laser diode amplifiers; sub-picosecond gain dynamic in highly-index guided tapered-waveguide semiconductor laser diode optical amplifiers; saturation intensity of InGaAsP tapered travelling-wave semiconductor laser amplifier structure; wavelength conversion in tapered-waveguide laser diode amplifiers using cross-gain modulation; basic concepts and applications of the semiconductor laser; microwave circuit techniques and semiconductor modelling; microwave circuit models of semiconductor lasers; transmission-line laser models of tapered waveguide lasers and amplifiers; and novel integrated mode-locked laser design.