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

Cun-Zheng Ning; Svend Bischoff; Stephan W. Koch; G. K. Harkness; Jerome V. Moloney; Weng W. Chow

doi:10.1117/1.602032

1 April 1998 Microscopic modeling of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers: many-body interaction, plasma heating, and transverse dynamics

Cun-Zheng Ning, Svend Bischoff, Stephan W. Koch, G. K. Harkness, Jerome V. Moloney, Weng W. Chow

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 37, Issue 4, (April 1998). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602032

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.

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Cun-Zheng Ning, Svend Bischoff, Stephan W. Koch, G. K. Harkness, Jerome V. Moloney, and Weng W. Chow "Microscopic modeling of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers: many-body interaction, plasma heating, and transverse dynamics," Optical Engineering 37(4), (1 April 1998). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602032

Published: 1 April 1998

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