STRUCTURE DEPENDENT MODULATION RESPONSES IN QUANTUM-WELL LASERS

被引:57
作者
TESSLER, N
NAGAR, R
EISENSTEIN, G
机构
[1] Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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10.1109/3.159531
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We present a three level rate equation model describing structural dependent modulation bandwidth limitations in quantum-well lasers. We demonstrate an enhanced damping as well as a capacitive-like rolloff in the modulation response due to the transport time and carrier injection bottle-neck. We show that for relatively short transport times, the dominant effect is that of damping and we calculate an approximated explicit expression for a structure dependent nonlinear gain compression coefficient.
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页码:2242 / 2250
页数:9
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