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In Chap. 11, it was demonstrated that confining the optical field to the region of the laser in which the inverted population exists results in a substantial reduction of threshold current density and a corresponding increase in efficiency. As early as 1963, it was proposed that heterojunctions could be used to produce a waveguiding structure with the desired property of optical confinement [12.1, 2]. At about the same time, others proposed using a heterojunction laser structure not for optical field confinement, but to produce higher carrier injection efficiency at the p-n junction, and to confine the carriers to the junction region [12.3,4]. Actually, all three of these mechanisms are present in a heterostructure laser, and their combined effects result in a device that is vastly superior to the basic p-n homojunction laser.
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Hunsperger, R.G. (1991). Heterostructure, Confined-Field Lasers. In: Integrated Optics: Theory and Technology. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 33. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48730-2_12
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