Semiconductor lasers : fundamentals and applications / edited by Alexei Baranov and Eric Tournié.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Principles of semiconductor lasers / P. Blood -- Photonic crystal lasers / Y. Zhang and M. Lončar -- High-power semiconductor lasers / M. Fallahi and R. Bedford -- Semiconductor laser beam combining / B. Liu, P. Colet and Y. Braiman -- Ultrafast pulse generation by semiconductor lasers / E.U. Rafailov and E. Avrutin -- Nonpolar and semipolar group III-nitride lasers / D. Feezell and S. Nakamura -- Advanced self-assembled indium arsenide (InAs) quantum-dot lasers / M. Sugawara, Y. Arakawa and K. Tanabe -- Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) / K.D. Choquette -- Semiconductor disk lasers (VECSELs) / J.E. Hastie, S. Calvez and M.D. Dawson -- Hybrid silicon lasers / D. Liang and J.E. Bowers -- Gallium antimonide (GaSb)-based type-I quantum well diode lasers : recent development and prospects / G. Belenky, L. Shterengas, M.V. Kisin and T. Hosoda -- Interband cascade (IC) lasers / R.Q. Yang -- Terahertz (THz) quantum cascade lasers / S. Barbieri and S. Kumar -- Whispering gallery mode lasers / A. Monakhov and N. Sablina -- Tunable mid-infrared laser absorption spectroscopy / F.K. Tittel and R. Lewicki.