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An efficient analytical model to calculate the optical gain of the quantum-well laser of the GaN–In x Ga1−x N material system is used in this paper. Based on the anisotropic effective mass theories, empirical formulas delineating the relations between optical gain, emission wavelength, well width and material compositions are obtained for such a quantum-well lasers.
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