When an electron and a hole are present in the same region, they may recombine or annihilate producing a spontaneous emission — that is, the electron may re-occupy the energy state of the hole, emitting a photon with energy equal to the difference between the electron's. When an electron and a hole are present in the same region, they may recombine or annihilate producing a spontaneous emission — that is, the electron may re-occupy the energy state of the hole, emitting a photon with energy equal to the difference between the electron's. A laser diode (LD, also injection laser diode or ILD or semiconductor laser or diode laser) is a semiconductor device similar to a light-emitting diode in which a diode pumped directly with electrical current can create lasing conditions at the diode's junction. : 3 Driven by voltage, the doped. The energy difference between VB and CB is called energy gap. If the valence bands are partly filled, this material is p-type, if the conductive bands are partly filled, this material is n-type. Here Fermi level is used to label the occupation conditions of electrons in the semiconductor, it is the. All light sources convert input energy into light. It works on the same basic principle as an LED, but with an internal structure that forces photons to align in phase and direction, producing coherent laser light instead of the.