Semiconductor lasers are small solid-state lasers that use a semiconductor as an active medium to amplify light through stimulated emission at inter-band transitions under high electron density in the ...

Over the past five decades, breakthroughs in device design and advances in material and growth technologies have transformed semiconductor lasers from laboratory curiosities into practical devices ...

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Basic concepts of lasers; laser applications; gas and liquid lasers; solid-state lasers; semiconductor lasers; materials and devices; rate equations; laser gain and saturation; ...

Semiconductor lasers use the optical properties of semiconducting materials to produce coherent light. Electrons and their positive-charge counterpart called holes are injected into an optically ...

Modern electronics have been reaping the benefits of cheap, compact semiconductor lasers for years now. From the revolutions in CD and DVD optical data storage, through seemingly simple devices like ...

Single-mode semiconductor lasers provide an inexpensive and compact laser source for a wide range of applications, including Raman spectroscopy, Raman microscopy, process Raman, metrology, atomic ...

Semiconductors are an integral part of the inner workings of medical devices, assisting in the conductivity between a non-conductor and a conductor to control electricity flow. In turn, the assembly ...

The demand for photonics technology continues to grow with popular laser applications including semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs), Fabry-Perot (FP) devices and distributed feedback (DFB) lasers.

Berkeley engineers have created a new type of semiconductor laser that accomplishes an elusive goal in the field of optics: the ability to maintain a single mode of emitted light while maintaining the ...