Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Monolithic phase-locked semiconductor laser arrays / Dan Botez -- High-power coherent, semiconductor laser, master oscillator power amplifiers and amplifier arrays / David F. Welch and David G. Mehuys -- Microoptical components applied to incoherent and coherent laser arrays / James R. Leger -- Modeling of diode laser arrays / G. Ronald Hadley -- Dynamics of coherent semiconductor laser arrays / Herbert G. Winful and Richard K. Defreez -- High-average-power semiconductor laser arrays and laser array packaging with an emphasis on pumping solid state lasers / Richard Solarz [and others] -- High-power diode laser arrays and their reliability / D.R. Scifres and H.H. Kung -- Strained layer quantum well heterostructure laser arrays / James J. Coleman -- Vertical cavity surface-emitting laser arrays / Connie J. Chang-Hasnain -- Individually addressed arrays of diode lasers / Donald B. Carlin.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental principles and applications of semiconductor diode laser arrays. All of the major types of arrays are discussed in detail, including coherent, incoherent, edge- and surface-emitting, horizontal- and vertical-cavity, individually addressed, lattice-matched and strained-layer systems. The initial chapters cover such topics as lasers, amplifiers, external-cavity control, theoretical modelling, and operational dynamics. Spatially incoherent arrays are then described in detail, and the uses of vertical-cavity surface emitter and edge-emitting arrays in parallel optical-signal processing and multi-channel optical recording are discussed. Engineers, established researchers and graduate students studying the properties and applications of such arrays will find this book invaluable.