NOVEL PROPERTIES.”Their output optical powers are as high as 2 W: Infrared Si lasers have also been developed whose CW output optical power is as high as 100 W, and the threshold current density is as low as 60 A/cm at room temperature. Their high power and low energy consumption factors are 10(4) and 0.05, respectively, relative to those of the conventional single-stripe double heterojunction-structured semiconductor lasers fabricated using the direct-transition-type compound InGaAsP. Furthermore, novel polarization rotators have been developed using crystalline SiC that exhibit a gigantic ferromagnetic magneto-optical effect.”
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