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Physics of Strained Quantum Well Lasers

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. John P. Loehr

    1. Wright Laboratory, USA

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Quantum-Mechanical Preliminaries

    • John P. Loehr
    Pages 1-55

  3. Bulk Semiconductor Bandstructure

    • John P. Loehr
    Pages 57-126

  4. Electronic States in Quantum Wells

    • John P. Loehr
    Pages 127-162

  5. Waveguiding in Semiconductor Lasers

    • John P. Loehr
    Pages 163-186

  6. Interaction of Matter and Radiation

    • John P. Loehr
    Pages 187-207

  7. Gain and Emission in Strained Quantum Well Lasers

    • John P. Loehr
    Pages 209-232

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 233-255
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When this publisher offered me the opportunity to \\Tite a book, some six years ago, I did not hesitate to say yes. I had just spent the last four years of graduate school struggling to understand the physics of strained quantum well lasers, and it seemed to me the whole experience was much more difficult that it should have been. For although many of the results I needed were easy to locate, the underlying physical premises and intervening steps were not. If only I had a book providing the derivations, I could have absorbed them and gone on my way. Such a book lies before you. It provides a unified and self-contained descrip­ tion of the essential physics of strained quantum well lasers, starting from first principles whenever feasible. The presentation I have chosen requires only the standard introductory background in quantum mechanics, solid state physics, and electromagnetics expected of entering graduate students in physics or elec­ trical engineering. A single undergraduate course in each of these subjects should be more than sufficient to follow the text. :'Iore advanced material on quantum mechanics is developed and collected in the first chapter. \Vhen pos­ sible, I have presented the results in a general setting and have later applied them to specific cases of interest. I find this the most satisfying way to ap­ proach the subject, and it has the additional benefit of solving many problems once and for all.

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  • Wright Laboratory, USA

    John P. Loehr

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