PART VI Laser Diodes

26 Laser Diode Fundamentals



Joachim Piprek



27 High-Power Lasers



Hans Wenzel and Anissa Zeghuzi



28 High-Brightness Tapered Lasers



Ignacio Esquivias, Antonio Perez-Serrano, and Jose-Manuel G. Tijero



29 High-Brightness Laser Diodes with External Feedback



Mohamad Anas Helal, Simeon N. Kaunga-Nyirenda, Steve Bull, and Eric Larkins



30 Single Longitudinal Mode Laser Diodes



Xun Li



31 Traveling Wave Modeling of Nonlinear Dynamics in Multisection Laser Diodes



Mindaugas Radziunas



32 Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers



Eugene Avrutin and Julien Javaloyes



33 Quantum Cascade Lasers: Electrothermal Simulation



Song Mei, Yanbing Shi, Olafur Jonasson, and Irena Knezevic



34 Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers



Tomasz Czyszanowski, Leszek Frasunkiewicz, and Maciej Dems

PART VII Photodetectors and Modulators



35 Photodetector Fundamentals



Prasanta Basu



36 P-N Junction Photodiodes



Weida Hu



37 Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors



Kwong-Kit Choi



38 Optical Modulators



Dominic F.G. Gallagher and Dmitry Labukhin

PART VIII Solar Cells



39 Solar Cell Fundamentals



Matthias Muller



40 Multijunction Solar Cells



Matthew Wilkins and Karin Hinzer



41 Nanostructure Solar Cells



Urs Aeberhard



42 Nanowire Solar Cells: Electro-Optical Performance



Bernd Witzigmann



43 Thin-Film Solar Cells



Matthias Auf der Maur, Tim Albes, and Alessio Gagliardi

PART IX Novel Applications



44 Electroluminescent Refrigerators



Kuan-Chen Lee and Shun-Tung Yen



45 Photonic Crystal Laser Diodes



Maciej Dems



46 Single-Photon Sources



Niels Gregersen, Dara P. S. McCutcheon, and Jesper Mørk



47 Nanoplasmonic Lasers and Spasers



A. Freddie Page and Ortwin Hess



48 Quantum-Dot Nanolasers



Christopher Gies, Michael Lorke, Frank Jahnke, and Weng W. Chow



49 Nonlinear Dynamics in Quantum Photonic Structures



Gabriela Slavcheva and Mirella Koleva

PART X Mathematical Methods



50 Drift-Diffusion Models



Patricio Farrell, Nella Rotundo, Duy Hai Doan, Markus Kantner, Jurgen Fuhrmann, and Thomas Koprucki



51 Monte Carlo Device Simulations



Katerina Raleva, Abdul R. Shaik, Raghuraj Hathwar, Akash Laturia, Suleman S. Qazi, Robin Daugherty, Dragica Vasileska, and Stephen M. Goodnick



52 Photonics



Frank Schmidt