Advances in Semiconductor Lasers

MAY 01, 1985

Diode lasers are providing coherent monochromatic light for an enormous variety of applications, including fiber‐optic communications, audio and video recording systems and aligning structures and tunnels.

DOI: 10.1063/1.880972

Yasuharu Suematsu

In the past decade the semiconductor laser—also known as the diode or junction laser—has become a key device in optical electronics because of its pure output spectrum and high quantum efficiency. Not coincidentally, its output can be modulated at very high speeds; this property and its compact size make it useful in a vast range of applications, from fiber‐optic communications to optical radar.

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Yasuharu Suematsu. Tokyo Institute of Technology.