A Standing-Wave Model Based on Threshold Hot-Cavity Modes for Simulation of Gain-Coupled DFB Lasers

Author

Xi, Yanping ; Huang, Wei-Ping ; Li, Xun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON, Canada

Volume

27

Issue

17

fYear

2009

Firstpage

3853

Lastpage

3860

Abstract

A time-domain standing-wave model is proposed and developed to analyze the gain-coupled DFB laser. In this model, the optical field is decomposed into a set of eigenmodes, which are longitudinal cavity modes obtained when the laser is biased near threshold, i.e., threshold "hot-"cavity modes. As such, the spatial and temporal dependence of the optical field is separated with optical modes describing the spatial dependence and their amplitudes governing the temporal evolution of the field. Important effects such as the variation of the coupling coefficient with the injection level and the spatial hole burning can all be taken into account.

Keywords

distributed feedback lasers; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; optical hole burning; semiconductor lasers; DFB lasers; coupling coefficient; eigenmodes; gain-coupled lasers; longitudinal cavity modes; optical field decomposition; optical modes; semiconductor laser diodes; spatial hole burning; standing-wave model; threshold hot-cavity modes; time-domain model; DFB; gain coupling; semiconductor laser diodes; standing-wave model (SWM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2009.2018131

Filename

4840460