Semiconductor-Laser Fundamentals: Physics of the Gain Materials 1999th Edition by Weng W. Chow (PDF)

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This in-depth title discusses the underlying physics and operational principles of semiconductor lasers. It analyzes the optical and electronic properties of the semiconductor medium in detail, including quantum confinement and gain-engineering effects. The text also includes recent developments in blue-emitting semiconductor lasers.

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⭐First, there are two points that should immediately be made about this book.1. The word “fundamentals” in the title is not from an engineer’s perspective, in which the basic design and operation principles would be laid out methodically. Rather the content is fundamental in a physics sense, in which the dynamics of a semiconductor laser are presented from a microscopic viewpoint.2. The book was written in 1999, and has not been updated since (to my knowledge). Some of the topics covered are thus understandably out of date, and many approximations that were forced to be made at the time of writing this book are now unnecessary due to analytical techniques developed since.With these two points made, this book still has value in presenting the many-body physics governing the dynamics in a semiconductor laser from first principles. It does so nicely by both removing layers of approximation and adding more terms to the Hamiltonian chapter by chapter, so the reader sees what kinds of effects are induced by each in a systematic way. Due to the age of the book however, anyone doing research in the field should immediately move on to more modern texts after reading this one. Any engineers looking for high-level design principles should also look elsewhere.

⭐This book looks and IS good when it comes down to going through complicated optical gain calculations. However, I feel the book expects reader to know important and advanced fundamentals of lasers which it does not go through in the book and may prove disadvantage to both advanced and beginner researchers interested in semiconductor lasers. The book includes many complex equations but they are, in my opinion, not explicitly explained in the text. In addition, what I found most disappointing about the book is that there were no examples to demonstrate gain calculations on any material (like GaAs-AlGaAs etc), which would really help in modeling a quantum well structure.

⭐Engineering students may have a hard time to understand this book.

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