Diode Lasers
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Author(s): D. Sands
Publisher: Institute of Physics
ISBN: 0750307269
Format: softback
451pp
Price: £34.99
Review Date: 25 November 2004
Review: This undergraduate text is as much a book about semiconductor physics as it is about lasers. The diode laser is a continuous wave device that offers a range of wavelengths from blue to the far infra-red and can be found as a large in a number of different of types and characteristics. This book presents an overview of diode lasers, seen from a historical perspective. It starts with semiconductor physics, laser fundamentals, and the optical properties of semiconductors and goes on to the devices themselves, including the heterostructure laser, the quantum well laser, and the vertical cavity surface emitting laser, followed by a chapter on modelling using rate equations. Applications are also included, such as telecommunications and high power diode lasers, coming up to date with the latest research on the blue laser and quantum cascade laser.