Semiconductor Lasers and LEDs

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: EECS 429. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Optical processes in semiconductors, spontaneous emission, absorption gain, stimulated emission. Principles of light-emitting diodes, including transient effects, spectral and spatial radiation fields. Principles of semiconducting lasers; gain-current relationships, radiation fields, optical confinement and transient effects.