Transverse optical mode analysis of long-wavelength VCSELs for high single-mode power operation
Abstract
We present a detailed numerical study of transverse mode selection of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), based on microscopic models of charge carrier and temperature distributions solved self-consistently together with the optical modes. The simulations describe several measured device characteristics of tunnel junction double-fused VCSELs, in particular the switching between the fundamental and the excited transverse modes. As a conclusion, the onset of the multi-mode regime is shown to result from a combination of thermal lensing and gain-guiding mechanisms as well as spatial hole burning. Show more
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2008 International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD)Pages / Article No.
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Far-field; Higher-order mode; Kramers-Kronig; Laser simulation; Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)Organisational unit
03228 - Fichtner, Wolfgang
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