Over the past five decades, breakthroughs in device design and advances in material and growth technologies have transformed semiconductor lasers from laboratory curiosities into practical devices with real-world applications.
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Won, R. Celebrating semiconductor lasers. Nature Photon 6, 508–510 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2012.185
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2012.185