Nano-Optoelectronics
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9783540433941
Subjects: Applied optics; Nanotechnology; Semi-conductors & super-conductors; Science/Mathematics; Optoelectronic Devices; Technological Innovations; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science; Electronics - Optoelectronics; Engineering - Electrical & Electronic; Technology / Lasers; Optics; Optoelectronics
First sentence: The idea of the semiconductor laser seems to have first emerged in 1953 in the work of the well-known mathematician John von Neumann [1], who suggested using the phenomenon of injection in germanium p-n junctions for the generation and amplification of infrared radiation.