Mode transformation in VCSEL emitting pseudorandom sequence of pulses

Author

Morozov, Yu. ; Nefedov, I. ; Gusyatnkov, V.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Radio Eng. & Electron., Acad. of Sci., Saratov, Russia

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

217

Lastpage

220

Abstract

The dynamics of vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) operation was numerically simulated under the pumping current modulation by pseudorandom pulsed sequence for the NRZ encoding format. It was obtained that, for certain laser parameters and modulation ones, the emitted pulses have substantially differing mode composition due to delay in exciting the side modes with respect to the main mode excitation. We consider this result to be of importance for applications and to be taken into account with the VCSEL´s use in modern optical-fibre based telecommunication systems

Keywords

laser modes; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; surface emitting lasers; NRZ encoding format; VCSEL; mode transformation; numerical simulation; optical fibre telecommunication system; pseudorandom pulse sequence; pumping current modulation; vertical cavity surface emitting laser; Laser excitation; Laser modes; Numerical simulation; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Pulse modulation; Pump lasers; Random sequences; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2000 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gdansk

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6337-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2000.874159

Filename

874159