Improved Effective Index Method for oxide-confined VCSEL mode analysis

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4646, Issue , 2002, Pages 168-175

  Ng, Wei Choon ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Klein, Ben ^a   Hess, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective index; Optical modes; Simulation; VCSELs

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LASER MODES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EFFECTIVE INDEX METHOD; GAIN-GUIDED DIFFRACTION EFFECT; INDEX-GUIDED DIFFRACTION EFFECT;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0036029698     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.470513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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