Quantum-Well Laser Array Packaging


Book Description

Quantum-well lasers offer the promise of lightning-fast data communications - 10-to-100 times faster than broadband. While the architecture for these devices already exists, they suffer from material packaging problems. This book addresses this critical issue. It offers screening and packaging techniques useful for researchers.




Quantum-Well Laser Array Packaging


Book Description

Quantum-well lasers offer the promise of lightning-fast data communications - 10-to-100 times faster than broadband. While the architecture for these devices already exists, they suffer from material packaging problems. This book addresses this critical issue. It offers screening and packaging techniques useful for researchers.




Handbook of Compound Semiconductors


Book Description

This book reviews the recent advances and current technologies used to produce microelectronic and optoelectronic devices from compound semiconductors. It provides a complete overview of the technologies necessary to grow bulk single-crystal substrates, grow hetero-or homoepitaxial films, and process advanced devices such as HBT's, QW diode lasers, etc.




Packaging of High Power Semiconductor Lasers


Book Description

This book introduces high power semiconductor laser packaging design. The challenges of the design and various packaging and testing techniques are detailed by the authors. New technologies and current applications are described in detail.







Laser Physics and Technology


Book Description

The book, ‘Laser Physics and Technology’, addresses fundamentals of laser physics, representative laser systems and techniques, and some important applications of lasers. The present volume is a collection of articles based on some of the lectures delivered at the School on ‘Laser Physics and Technology’ organized at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology during March, 12-30, 2012. The objective of the School was to provide an in-depth knowledge of the important aspects of laser physics and technology to doctoral students and young researchers and motivate them for further work in this area. In keeping with this objective, the fourteen chapters, written by leading Indian experts, based on the lectures delivered by them at the School, provide along with class room type coverage of the fundamentals of the field, a brief review of the current status of the field. The book will be useful for doctoral students and young scientists who are embarking on a research in this area as well as to professionals who would be interested in knowing the current state of the field particularly in Indian context.




Phase-Locked Semiconductor Quantum Well Laser Arrays


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This dissertation presents the experimental study of quantum well heterostructures in the III-V compound semiconductor system of (A1,Ga)As/GaAs. This study was conducted with a view to applying these structures in heterostructure lasers; specifically, phase-locked laser arrays. Broad area lasers fabricated from the quantum well microstructures exhibited threshold current densities as low as 200 Amp/sq. cm. The major contribution of this work is a new monolithic laser array structure which achieves phase-locking through coupling by diffraction in a central mode-mixing region where the light is unguided. The propagating eigen-modes are index-guided on either side of the mode-mixing region in parallel-element ridge waveguides. The new array displays narrow, single-lobe far-field patterns. The narrowest far-field pattern observed is 2 deg wide. An analytic model which explains the characteristics of the observed far-field patterns is presented. This model is developed from a premise with experimental basis.




Micro- and Opto-Electronic Materials and Structures: Physics, Mechanics, Design, Reliability, Packaging


Book Description

This handbook provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date and easy-to-apply information on the physics, mechanics, reliability and packaging of micro- and opto-electronic materials. It details their assemblies, structures and systems, and each chapter contains a summary of the state-of-the-art in a particular field. The book provides practical recommendations on how to apply current knowledge and technology to design and manufacture. It further describes how to operate a viable, reliable and cost-effective electronic component or photonic device, and how to make such a device into a successful commercial product.




Solid-State Laser Engineering


Book Description

Written from an industrial perspective this book discusses in detail the characteristics, design, construction, and performance of solid-state lasers. Emphasis is placed on engineering and practical considerations; phenomenological aspects using models are preferred to abstract mathematical derivations. Since its first edition almost 30 years ago this book has become the standard in the field of solid-state lasers for scientists, engineers and graduate students. This edition has been extensively revised and updated to account for recent developments in the areas of diode-laser pumping, laser materials and nonlinear crystals, and entire new sections have been added.