Handbook of Solid-state Lasers (Optical Engineering)
Publisher: CRC
Published: November 29, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780824778576
Subjects: Laser technology; Solid-state lasers; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Electronics - Circuits - General; Engineering - General; Lasers; Technology / Electronics / Circuits / General; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Optics
First sentence: Carrier injection across pn junctions as a means for achieving stimulated emission in semiconductors was first proposed by von Neumann in 1953 [1] and was independently discussed later by Basov et al. [2] and by others [3].