THE INVENTION OF THE LASER DIODE

HALL, ROBERT N. & G. E. FENNER & J. D. KINGSLEY & T. J. SOLTYS & R. O. CARLSON

Coherent Light Emission From GaAs Junctions.

(New York), American physical Society, 1962. Lex8vo. Volume 9, No. 9, November 1, 1962 of "Physical Review Letters", In the original printed blue wrappers. A very nice and clean copy externally as well as internally, near mint. Pp. 366-368. [Entire issue: 361-414].

First edition of this groundbreaking paper in which the first demonstration of a coherent light emission from a semiconductor diode or laser diode is presented.

The semiconductor laser is built upon Gallium arsenide (GaAs) which is a compound of the elements gallium and arsenic. It is a III/V semiconductor, and is used in a wide variety of devices such as microwave frequency integrated circuits, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, infrared light-emitting diodes, laser diodes, solar cells, and optical windows.Later advances and improvements in materials has made the injection laser a fundamental and essential device in many important systems such as DVD- and CD-players.

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