Microscopic modeling of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers: Many-body interaction, plasma heating, and transverse dynamics

C. Z. Ning; Svend Bischoff; Stephan W. Koch; G. K. Harkness; Jerome V. Moloney; Weng W. Chow

doi:10.1117/1.602032

Microscopic modeling of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers: Many-body interaction, plasma heating, and transverse dynamics

C. Z. Ning, Svend Bischoff, Stephan W. Koch, G. K. Harkness, Jerome V. Moloney, Weng W. Chow

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Abstract

A microscopic theory for the interaction between semiconductor quantum-well structures and laser fields based on the semiconductor Bloch equations is applied to vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) with the inclusion of plasma heating. The semiconductor Bloch equations are reduced to a set of equations for the first and second moments of the carrier distribution functions. Plasma heating and many-body effects are then studied by solving this set of equations in steady state under the approximation of a single transverse and longitudinal mode. The transverse- and longitudinal-mode dynamics of VCSELs is analyzed by solving the full space-time-dependent problem.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1175-1181
Number of pages	7
Journal	Optical Engineering
Volume	37
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602032
State	Published - Apr 1998
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Bloch equations
Mode dynamics
Plasma heating
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs)

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
General Engineering

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