Investigation of optical far-field stability in long-wavelength VCSELs - Thermal and carrier-induced effects

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6468, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bäcker, Alexandra ^a   Santschi, Rafael ^a   Odermatt, Stefan ^a   Römer, Friedhard ^a   Pfeiffer, Michael ^b   Royo, Paul ^c   Iakovlev, Vladimir ^c   Syrbu, Alexei ^c   Caliman, Andrei ^c   Mereuta, Alexandru ^c   Kapon, Eli ^d   Witzigmann, Bernd ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SYNOPSYS SWITZERLAND LLC   (Switzerland)

^c BeamExpress SA   (Switzerland)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electro opto thermal laser simulation; Far field; Free carrier absorption (FCA); Gain guiding; Refractive index; Technology computer aided design (TCAD); Thermal lensing; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; HELMHOLTZ EQUATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL SENSORS;

ELECTROOPTOTHERMAL LASER SIMULATION; FREE CARRIER ABSORPTION (FCA); GAIN GUIDING; TECHNOLOGY COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN (TCAD); THERMAL LENSING; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASERS (VCSEL);

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 34248583283     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.699842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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