Series in Microelectronics
edited by
Wolfgang Fichtner
Qiuting Huang
Heinz Jäckel
Gerhard Tröster
Bernd Witzigmann
Philipp Kreuter
Modeling of
Electrically Pumped
Vertical-External-Cavity
Surface-Emitting Lasers
2010. XVIII, 166 pages. € 64,00.
ISBN 3-86628-317-2 and 978-3-86628-317-6
This dissertation deals with the
physical modeling and simulation of mode locked, electrically pumped VECSELs
(EP-VECSELs). In the first part, a TCAD study of the continuous wave steady state
behavior is conducted. It results in a comprehensive set of design guidelines
for the layout of EP-VECSELs which has been verified experimentally. The second
part is concerned with the numerical simulation of VECSEL mode locking in time
and frequency domain. A semiclassical mode locking model is derived from the
semiconductor Maxwell Bloch equations. The prospects and limits of implicit and
explicit time domain models are shown. A novel frequency domain approach for
the simulation of mode locking dynamics is introduced and its applicability to
the nonlinear lasing problem is demonstrated.
About the Author
Philipp
Kreuter was born in W¨urzburg, Germany, in 1978. He received
the B.Sc. and Dipl.-Ing. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technical
University of Munich (TUM), Germany, in 2004 and 2005 respectively. From 2002
to 2003 he was on a SOCRATES exchange program at the ´Ecole Nationale Supérieure
de l’Aèronautique et de l’Espace (ENSAE) in Toulouse, France, and the
Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. From 2005 to 2010 he was a
research and teaching assistant at the Integrated Systems Laboratory (IIS), ETH
Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests lie in the field of numerical modeling,
simulation, and design of optoelectronic devices with a focus on the highly
complex nonlinear and dynamic processes in mode locked VECSELs
Keywords: Optoelektronik, Halbleiter-Laser, Laser-Pulse,
VECSEL, Modenkopplung, Numerische Simulation, Mathematische Modellierung, Elektrisches
Pumpen.
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