FDTD simulation of the nonlinear gain and pumping dynamics of optically pumped VCSELs

Author

Slavcheva, G.M. ; Arnold, J.M. ; Ziolkowski, R.W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Glasgow Univ., UK

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

513

Abstract

In this paper we apply the method of the FDTD solution of the full-wave vectorial Maxwell-Bloch equations for a two-level quantum system to investigate the nonlinear gain spatio-temporal dynamics of an active semiconductor microcavity. We have performed a number of validation studies in order to establish the ability of our 1D semiclassical model to correctly recover the nonlinear gain dynamics of a homogeneously broadened two-level saturable gain medium.

Keywords

Maxwell equations; finite difference time-domain analysis; microcavities; microcavity lasers; optical pumping; quantum optics; surface emitting lasers; FDTD simulation; VCSEL; active semiconductor microcavity; full-wave vectorial Maxwell-Bloch equations; nonlinear gain; optical pumping; pumping dynamics; spatio-temporal dynamics; two-level quantum system; two-level saturable gain medium; Finite difference methods; Maxwell equations; Microcavities; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Performance gain; Time domain analysis; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7888-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2003.1252899

Filename

1252899