Uniform optical pumping design for 1.55 μm VCSELs

Author

Geske, Jonathan ; Piprek, Joachim

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

14-16 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

49

Lastpage

50

Abstract

Numerical laser simulation of new active region design which provides more uniform gain using carrier blocking layers between the quantum wells is presented. The laser model includes calculations of optical carrier generation, carrier transport from the absorber layers to the quantum wells, quantum well gain, and optical field. The model is designed to compensate the non-uniform optical pumping of the quantum wells.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical design techniques; optical fibre communication; optical pumping; quantum well lasers; semiconductor device models; surface emitting lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.55 mum; VCSELs; laser model; optical carrier generation; optical carrier transport; optical pumping design; quantum well gain; Optical arrays; Optical design; Optical pumping; Pump lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices, 2003. NUSOD 2003. Proceedings of the IEEE/LEOS 3rd International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7992-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NUSOD.2003.1259044

Filename

1259044