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Fundamentals of Semiconductor LEDs and Lasers

ECE 577 (3)

Carrier generation and recombination, photon generation and loss in laser cavities, density of optical modes and blackbody radiation, radiative and non-radiative processes, optical gain, spontaneous and stimulated emission, Fermi’s golden rule, gain and current relations, characterizing real diode lasers, dynamic effects, rate equation; small signal and large signal analysis, radiative intensity noise and linewidth.

Prerequisite: 572

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Prerequisites / Corequisites

Semiconductor Physics - ECE 572

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