Ingredients

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Energy Levels and Bands in Solids Spontaneous and Stimulated Transitions: The Creation of Light Transverse Confinement of Carriers and Photons in Diode Lasers: The Double Heterostructure Semiconductor Materials for Diode Lasers Epitaxial Growth Technology Lateral Confinement of Current, Carriers, and Photons for Practical Lasers Practical Laser Examples References Reading List Problems