Title :
Semiconductor-laser self pulsing due to deep level traps
Author :
Copeland, John A.
Author_Institution :
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Crawford Hill Laboratory, Holmdel, USA
Abstract :
By adding a rate equation for the charge state of deep-level traps to the rate equations for electron and photon density, it is shown that the observed self pulsing observed in semiconductor lasers can be due to the presence of deep-level traps with less than 1017 cm¿3 density.
Keywords :
electron traps; semiconductor junction lasers; deep level traps; electron density; photon density; rate equation; self pulsing; semiconductor lasers;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19780546
