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Analysis of Channeled-Substrate-Planar Double-Heterostructure Lasers Using the Effective Index Technique

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Semiconductor lasers have applications as sources in optical communication systems, optical recording, consumer products, and interferometer systems. Because of the rapid advancement of the manufacture of optical fibers with low loss for the transmission of analog and digital signals, research in long-life and low-threshold single-mode laser sources has increased with high intensity over the last 25 years. The realization of high data-rate channels for optical fiber systems has been achieved using a combination of single-mode lasers, single-mode fibers, and high-speed detectors. Compact audio discs, along with other consumer applications such as laser printers, have driven the world production of laser diodes to over a million devices per month. The commercialization of optical memory for computers will provide a further surge in the production of semiconductor lasers. Semiconductor lasers are also being developed for space and satellite communication.

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Evans, G.A., Butler, J.K. (1990). Analysis of Channeled-Substrate-Planar Double-Heterostructure Lasers Using the Effective Index Technique. In: Kritikos, H.N., Jaggard, D.L. (eds) Recent Advances in Electromagnetic Theory. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3330-5_4

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