Modeling rare turn-on events of injection lasers

Author

Liu, Pao-Lo ; Choy, Michael M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., State Univ. of New York, Amherst, NY, USA

Volume

25

Issue

8

fYear

1989

fDate

8/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1767

Lastpage

1770

Abstract

An efficient numerical method based on photon statistics and rate equations is developed to simulate rare turn-on events of injection lasers. Results indicate that: (1) during the transient stage, with a probability of 10^-9, the side-mode suppression ratio can deteriorate by three orders of magnitude from its steady-state value; (2) there is a turn-on jitter for the main mode, even when the side mode is missing; and (3) the slower the risetime of the laser output the less the transient mode partitioning. The effects of gain compression and driving condition on the transient turn on are discussed

Keywords

laser modes; laser theory; semiconductor device models; semiconductor junction lasers; driving condition; efficient numerical method; gain compression; injection lasers; main mode; photon statistics; rare turn-on events; rate equations; side-mode suppression ratio; transient mode partitioning; transient stage; transient turn; turn-on jitter; Distributed feedback devices; Error analysis; Fluctuations; Jitter; Laser feedback; Laser modes; Laser noise; Laser theory; Semiconductor lasers; Statistical distributions;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.34034

Filename

34034