Title :
An efficient system-oriented VCSEL model including 2D modal dynamics and thermal effects
Author :
Jungo, Marc ; Erni, Daniel ; Baechtol, Werner
Author_Institution :
Lab. for Electromagn. Fields & Microwave Electron., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland
Abstract :
We propose a new system-oriented 2D VCSEL model, which takes into account the detailed interactions between the transverse carrier and field distributions. It shows several orders of magnitude improvement in computational efficiency compared to conventional models.
Keywords :
laser modes; laser noise; laser theory; optical hole burning; optical interconnections; quantum well lasers; surface emitting lasers; VCSEL; computational efficiency; eye diagram; field distributions; modal dynamics; parallel optical interconnects; relative intensity noise spectra; spatial hole burning; system-oriented 2D model; thermal effects; thermal gain reduction; transverse carrier interactions; Computational efficiency; Computational modeling; Equations; Filtering; Laser modes; Optical filters; Optical interconnections; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7500-9
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2002.1134064
