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Zusatztext The authors are undoubted experts and pioneers in the field Informationen zum Autor VM Ustinov is Head of Laboratory at A.F.Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences and has been awarded various prizes: State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and Technology (2001), Outstanding Scientist Award (Russia 1999, 2001), Grand prize of the International Academic Publishing Company "Nauka/Interperiodica" for the best series of publications (2000 - "III-V heterostructures with quantum dots: fabrication methods, physical properties, and use in laser diodes"), Award of Russian Science Support Foundation (2001, 2002), Award of A.F.Ioffe institute for the best research work (2001, 2002).AE Zhukov is a Senior Researcher at A.F.Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences and has been awarded various prizes: Outstanding Young Scientist Award (Russia 1999, 2001), Grand prize of the International Academic Publishing Company "Nauka/Interperiodica" for the best series of publications (2000 - "III-V heterostructures with quantum dots: fabrication methods, physical properties, and use in laser diodes"), Award of Russian Science Support Foundation (2001, 2002), Award of A.F.Ioffe institute for the best research work (2001).AY Egorov is a Senior Researcher at A.F.Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.NA Maleev is a Senior Researcher at A.F.Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences and in 2000 was awarded the Grand prize of the International Academic Publishing Company "Nauka/Interperiodica" for the best series of publications ("III-V heterostructures with quantum dots: fabrication methods, physical properties, and use in laser diodes"). Klappentext The book addresses issues associated with physics and technology of injection lasers based on self-organized quantum dots. Fundamental and technological aspects of quantum dot edge-emitting lasers and VCSELs, their current status and future prospects are summarized and reviewed. Basicprinciples of QD formation using self-organization phenomena are reviewed. Structural and optical properties of self-organized QDs are considered with a number of examples in different material systems. Recent achievements in controlling the QD properties including the effects of vertical stacking, changing the matrix bandgap and the surface density of QDs are reviewed. The authors focus on the use of self-organized quantum dots in laser structures, fabrication and characterization of edge and surface emitting diode lasers, their properties and optimization with special attention paid to therelationship between structural and electronic properties of QDs and laser characteristics. The threshold and power characteristics of the state-of-the-art QD lasers are demonstrated. Issues related to the long-wavelength (1.3-mm) lasers on a GaAs substrate are also addressed and recent results onInGaAsN-based diode lasers presented for the purpose of comparison. Zusammenfassung A book devoted to the physics and technology of diode lasers based on self-organized quantum dots. It first addresses fundamentals of semiconductor quantum dot fabrication along with structural and electronic properties of quantum dots and secondly, use of self-organized quantum dots in laser structures, their properties and optimization. FUNDAMENTALS OF QUANTUM DOT LASERS; 1. Introduction; 2. Fabrication techniques and methods for semiconductor quantum dots; 3. Structural and electronic properties of self-organized quantum dots; HETEROSTRUCTURE LASERS BASED ON QUANTUM DOTS; 4. Optical gain and threshold characteristics of a self-organized quantum dot diode laser; 5. Quantum-dot edge-emitting lasers; 6. Long-wavelength emitters on GaAs; 7. Power characteristics of QD lasers; 8. QD vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers...
