The laser diode rate equations model the electrical and optical performance of a laser diode. This system of ordinary differential equations relates the...
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laser diode (LD, also injection laser diode or ILD or semiconductor laser or diode laser) is a semiconductor device similar to a light-emitting diode...
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A diode is a two-terminal electronic component that conducts electric current primarily in one direction (asymmetric conductance). It has low (ideally...
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A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron...
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require the use of full Maxwell-equations solvers (finite-difference time-domain method). In the laser diode rate equations, the photon life time τ p {\displaystyle...
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effects with diode laser-based treatment. Hair reduction after six months was reported as 68.75% for alexandrite lasers, 71.71% for diode lasers, and 66.96%...
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Design, Inc. Laser detector Laser detuning Laser diffraction analysis Laser diode Laser diode rate equations Laser Doppler velocimetry Laser Doppler vibrometer...
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superluminescent diode (SLED or SLD) is an edge-emitting semiconductor light source based on superluminescence. It combines the high power and brightness of laser diodes...
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states available for electrons to occupy. Conventional semiconductor laser diodes generate light by a single photon being emitted when a high energy electron...
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milliseconds is emitted by the laser. Disk shaped crystals are growing in popularity in the industry, and flashlamps are giving way to diodes due to their high efficiency...
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The active laser medium (also called a gain medium or lasing medium) is the source of optical gain within a laser. The gain results from the stimulated...
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hundreds of MW/cm2, and a material removal rate of a few micrometers per pulse. A flash lamp pumped Nd:YAG laser normally has a pulse duration on the order...
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spectroscopy Laser absorption spectrometry Noise-Immune Cavity-Enhanced Optical-Heterodyne Molecular Spectroscopy (NICE-OHMS) Tunable Diode Laser Absorption...
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Yamamoto, Y. (1991). "Analysis of semiconductor microcavity lasers using rate equations". IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 27 (11): 2386–2396. Bibcode:1991IJQE...
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laser. It can be performed using CO2 lasers, Nd:YAG lasers, Diode lasers and Fiber lasers. When a laser encounters the surface of plastics, it can be reflected...
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acronyms Laser construction Laser cooling Laser diode rate equations Laser diode Laser Doppler velocimetry Laser engraving Laser integration line Laser Interferometer...
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Interband cascade lasers (ICLs) are a type of laser diode that can produce coherent radiation over a large part of the mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic...
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fiber or with an optoelectronic device such as a light-emitting diode, a laser diode, or a modulator. This can involve either carefully aligning the fiber...
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Optically stimulated luminescence thermochronometry (section Kinetic or rate equations for trapping and detrapping processes)
By combining the four equations above, a single differential equation is developed to convert the luminescence into cooling rate. We have: d n ~ d t =...
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Frequency mixer (section Diode)
characteristics are used to mix two frequencies of laser light to create optical heterodynes. A diode can be used to create a simple unbalanced mixer. The...
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contain at least two semiconductors (a diode and a transistor, although modern buck converters frequently replace the diode with a second transistor used for...
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Optical tweezers (redirect from Laser levitation)
manipulation, and sorting of cells and colloids in microfluidic systems with diode laser bars". Optics Express. 12 (19): 4390–8. Bibcode:2004OExpr..12.4390A....
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Spectroscopy (redirect from Laser spectroscopy)
waves have been associated with a spectral signature in the context of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Spectroscopy is a...
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National Ignition Facility (category Inertial confinement fusion research lasers)
the laser amplifiers – 400 MJ in the case of NIF. Commercial laser fusion systems would use much more efficient diode-pumped solid state lasers, where...
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Negative resistance (section Gunn diode oscillator)
devices: tunnel diode, resonant tunneling diode and other semiconductor diodes using the tunneling mechanism Gunn diode and other diodes using the transferred...
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Heat transfer (section Laser cooling)
analysis often reduces the complexity of the equations to one first-order linear differential equation, in which case heating and cooling are described...
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ablated from the target per laser pulse is usually referred to as ablation rate. Such features of laser radiation as laser beam scanning velocity and the...
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spectrum of each atom. Emission can be spontaneous, as in light-emitting diodes, gas discharge lamps (such as neon lamps and neon signs, mercury-vapor lamps...
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began with the invention of the maser and laser in 1958 to 1960. Other developments followed: the laser diode in the 1970s, optical fibers for transmitting...
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Rectifier (section Diode vacuum tube (valve))
is the firing angle of the thyristor (0 if diodes are used to perform rectification) The above equations are only valid when no current is drawn from...
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