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Elements of Laser Physics. Overview of Main Ingredients, Characteristics and Applications of Semiconductor Lasers. Detailed Analysis of The Interaction of Electromagnetic Fields With Semiconductors# Radiative and Nonradiative Processes and Gain Mechanisms Under Injection. Bulk and Quantum Structure Based Lasers. Rate Equations For The Laser. Optical Structures Embedded in The Semiconductor Laser Resonators, 2d Waveguides, Gain Guiding, Mirrors And Distributed Periodic Structures Including Coupled Mode Theory. Dynamic Solutions For Small and Large Signal Modulation# Modulation Bandwidth and Relaxation Oscillations Resonance, Turn-on Delay, Frequency Chirping, Importance of Transport Effects. The Caracteristics of Several Types of Lasers.

Faculty: Electrical and Computer Engineering
|Graduate Studies

Pre-required courses

(44339 - Photonics and Lasers and 46241 - Quantum Mechanics) or (44339 - Photonics and Lasers and 115203 - Quantum Physics 1) or (46241 - Quantum Mechanics and 114210 - Optics) or (114210 - Optics and 115203 - Quantum Physics 1)

Course with no extra credit

48851

• Diode lasers and photonic integrated circuits - Coldren, L. A.
• Diode lasers and photonic integrated circuits - Coldren, L. A.
• Laser diode modulation and noise - Petermann, K.
• Laser Diode Modulation and Noise - Petermann, K.
• Long-wavelength semiconductor lasers - Agrawal, Govind P.
• Physics of semiconductor laser devices. - Thompson, G. H. B.
• Semiconductor Lasers - Agrawal, Govind P.
• Semiconductor lasers - Agrawal, Govind P.
• Semiconductor lasers and heterojunction LEDs - Kressel, Henry