Description
Book SynopsisDiscover the history behind the semiconductor laser diode that has enabled so many of the modern optomechanical devices we enjoy - the vertical cavity surface emitting laser - and its creator, Kenichi Iga. Translated from the original Japanese edition, this book charts a course through the author's life and the evolution of the laser industry, exploring the scientific, economic, and personal developments that have occurred over the last sixty years.
Table of Contents
- Everyone Uses Surface Emitting Lasers
- Surface Emitting Lasers: From Horizontal to Vertical
- My Research: Started from a Ruby Laser Experiment
- The Very Beginning is the Most Important Part: Well Prepared, No Regret
- The Birth of the Surface Emitting Laser: A Difficult Delivery
- Bell Labs: Experiencing the Major League
- Continuous Operation at Room Temperature: Mission Impossible
- Special Research Fund and a Wavelength-Tunable Surface Emitting Laser
- The Berlin Wall Collapse: The Great Research Competition in the 1990s
- Surface Emitting Lasers of Various Wavelengths: Development of Basic Technology
- Toward Industrialization and Big Innovation
- The Internet and Smartphones: The Surface Emitting Lasers Within
- Massively Parallel Photonics: The Dream Continues
- Surface Emitting Laser Patent: Too Early
- Laws of Making Opportunity
- Executive Director of the Funding Agency and University President: For Science, Education, and Research
- The 2013 Franklin Medal and the Bower Award and Prize
