Effects of plasma and lattice heating in VCSELs

Cun-Zheng Ning; Robert A. Indik; Jerome V. Moloney; Stephan W. Koch

doi:10.1117/12.212534

19 June 1995 Effects of plasma and lattice heating in VCSELs

Cun-Zheng Ning, Robert A. Indik, Jerome V. Moloney, Stephan W. Koch

Proceedings Volume 2399, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices III; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.212534
Event: Photonics West '95, 1995, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

We report thermal effects revealed by a self-consistent treatment of plasma and lattice heating in vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). The basic idea of our treatment is to couple the equations for carrier density and field amplitude in the conventional laser theory with those for two additional variables, the plasma and lattice temperatures. The CW operation of the VCSELs is investigated both for a fixed and for a self-consistently determined lattice temperature. In the first case plasma heating results in an increase of carrier density with pumping and thus in a pumping dependent frequency shift. In the latter case, both plasma and lattice heating induce a thermal switch-off of the laser as the pumping is increased. Furthermore, depending on the initial alignment of the cavity frequency and the ambient temperature of the device, heating can introduce a discontinuous threshold, exhibiting a bistability between lasing and nonlasing states. While some of our theoretical predictions are in qualitative agreement with known experiments, others await experimental verification.

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Cun-Zheng Ning, Robert A. Indik, Jerome V. Moloney, and Stephan W. Koch "Effects of plasma and lattice heating in VCSELs", Proc. SPIE 2399, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices III, (19 June 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.212534

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