Size limit and spontaneous emission factor for equilateral triangle semiconductor microlasers

Author

Huang, Y.Z. ; Guo, W.H. ; Yu, L.-J.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Semicond., Acad. Sinica, Beijing, China

Volume

148

Issue

56

fYear

2001

Firstpage

229

Lastpage

232

Abstract

The size of equilateral triangle resonator (ETR) needed for confining the fundamental mode is investigated by the total reflection condition of mode light rays and the FDTD numerical simulation. The confinement of the TM modes can be explained by the total reflection of mode light rays, and the confinement of the TE modes requires a larger ETR than the TM modes, which may be caused by excess scattering or radiation loss for the TE modes. With the multilayer staircase approximation, it is found that the spontaneous emission factor of the ETR lasers has the same form as that of strip waveguide lasers

Keywords

finite difference time-domain analysis; laser modes; laser theory; microcavity lasers; semiconductor device models; semiconductor lasers; spontaneous emission; waveguide lasers; FDTD numerical simulation; TE modes; TM mode confinement; equilateral triangle lasers; equilateral triangle semiconductor microlasers; fundamental mode; mode light rays; multilayer staircase approximation; radiation loss; size limit; spontaneous emission factor; strip waveguide lasers; total reflection; total reflection condition;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Optoelectronics, IEE Proceedings -

Publisher

iet

ISSN

1350-2433

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/ip-opt:20010762

Filename

980746