Quantum Well Optical Devices

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In this video, we start to explore new types of optical devices - ones made with quantum wells. These represent the vast majority of all modern optical devices, and it is likely most solid-state LASERs you encounter in practice use quantum wells. We explore the major differences between 'bulk' devices and quantum well devices, as well as what understanding we get to keep and what we have to modify.

This is part of my graduate series on optoelectronics / photonics, and is based primarily on Coldren's book on Lasers as well as graduate-level coursework I have taken in the EECS department at UC Berkeley.

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