Modeling of oxide-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 344-352

  Bissessur, Hans K ^b,c,d,e   Koyama, Fumio ^a,b,f,g   Iga, Kenichi ^a,b,f,h,i,j  

^a IEEE

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^d TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

^e Alcatel Alsthom Recherche   (France)

^f LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^g JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^h Inst Electronics Info Commun E ^*

ⁱ Institute of Electronics   (Japan)

^j Electronics Society

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Author keywords

Beam propagation; Optical interconnect; Semiconductor laser; Spatial hole burning; Surface emitting laser

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LASER MODES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES;

BEAM PROPAGATION; SPATIAL HOLE BURNING; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS (VCSEL);

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031108485     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.605677     Document Type: Article

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