Ghafouri-Shiraz Н. Fundamentals of Laser Diode Amplifiers

John Wiley & Sons, 1996. — 250 p.Basic Principles of Optical Amplifiers.
Interaction of Radiation with a Two-Level System.
Characterization of Optical Amplifiers.
Ideal Optical Amplifiers.
Practical Optical Amplifiers.
Optical Amplification in Semiconductor Laser Diodes.
Principles of Optical Amplification in Semiconductor Lasers.
Semiconductor Laser Diodes as Optical Amplifiers.
Types of Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers (SLA).
Radiative Transition in Semiconductors.
Applications of Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers.
Analysis of Transverse Modal Fields in Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers.
Solution of Transverse Modal Fields in Rectangular Optical Waveguides.
Applications of Solutions of Transverse Modal Fields in SLA.
Importance of Transverse Modal Field Properties in SLA.
Analysis and Modelling of Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers:
Gain and Saturation Characteristics.
Analysis of Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers with a Uniform Gain Profile.
General Analysis of Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers (A Brief Review).
Analysis of Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers Using Transfer Matrices.
An Equivalent Circuit Model for SLA.
Applications.
Analysis of Gain Saturation in a SLA With a Uniform Material Gain Profile.
Analysis and Modelling of Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers: Noise Characteristics.
Formulation of Noise in Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers.
Analysis of Noise in SLAs Using the Equivalent Circuit Model.
Applications.
Analysis of SLA Spontaneous Emission Power Using the Green Function Approach.
Experimental Studies on Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers.
Basic Set-up for Measurements.
Experimental Studies on Recombination Mechanisms.
Measurement of Gain Characteristics.
Measurement of Noise Characteristics.
Conclusions.
Summary of the Book.
Limitations of the Research Study.
Future Work.