半导体微腔激光器瞬态响应及调制特性分析

针对半导体微腔激光器的结构特点,考虑到腔量子电动力学中自发辐射增强效应,采用传统速率方程的表示形式,建立了微腔激光器的速率方程,着重讨论了微腔激光器的瞬态响应及调制特性,给出了其动态特性的仿真结果,分析了自发辐射因子、注入电流和腔长对微腔激光器的激射阈值、延迟时间、驰豫振荡频率和光输出等参量的影响,从而为改善微腔激光器的高频调制特性和优化器件结构提供了理论依据.     

微腔效应对垂直腔面发射激光器谐波和互调失真的影响

采用速率方程与Volterra变换方法,分析了垂直腔面发射激光器在微波模拟调制情况下,频率、自发辐射因子以及自发辐射寿命对三阶谐波和三阶互调失真的影响.结果表明垂直腔面发射激光器的非线性失真依赖于自发辐射物理量的变化,对激光器的自发辐射进行适当控制,可以抑制非线性对性能的影响,扩大其最大调制频率,提高基于VCSELs器件的ROF(radio over fiber)系统的性能和应用范围.     

微腔效应对垂直腔面发射激光器谐波和互调失真的影响

采用速率方程与Volterra变换方法,分析了垂直腔面发射激光器在微波模拟调制情况下,频率、自发辐射因子以及自发辐射寿命对三阶谐波和三阶互调失真的影响.结果表明垂直腔面发射激光器的非线性失真依赖于自发辐射物理量的变化,对激光器的自发辐射进行适当控制,可以抑制非线性对性能的影响,扩大其最大调制频率,提高基于VCSELs器件的ROF(radio over fiber)系统的性能和应用范围.     

VCSELs与EELs多模弛豫振荡的研究

根据多模速率方程,利用MATLAB提供的SIMULINK软件包对垂直腔面发射激光器(VCSELs)和边发射激光器(EELs)多模弛豫振荡进行了研究。结果表明,与单模情况相比,多模时EELs弛豫振荡频率增大、弛豫和延迟时间缩短,而VCSELs动态特性变化不大。与此同时,在得出VCSELs的单模工作、高速调制以及提高偏置电流或自发辐射因子可改善两类器件动态特性等结论外还看到,VCSELs边模抑制比(SMSR)随偏置电流变化率高于EELs;自发辐射因子增大时,边模强度同比例增大、主模强度减小,利用微腔效应有效控制自发辐射因子可以优化VCSELs的单模特性。     

光子晶体面发射蓝光激光器的高速调制性能分析

光子晶体面发射激光器基于光子晶体能带带边模式,形成二维微腔谐振,继而实现光增益和激射,其具有高功率、单纵模等优异特性。基于氮化镓基蓝光激光器结构和速率方程调制理论,对异质结构光子晶体面发射激光器进行了动态调制性能分析。通过仿真计算得出,在所研究的激光器结构参数下,阈值电流为1.76 mA,最大3 dB调制带宽为42 GHz,最低数据发送能耗为62.78 pJ·bit^-1,展示出了该结构激光器的基础性能和高速调制特性,为具有大调制带宽的蓝光激光器的设计提供了参考。     

DBR微腔激光器典型参数的开关调制响应及控制

以微腔激光器的典型代表垂直腔面发射半导体激光器(VCSEL)为例，选择自发辐射因子为控制参数，数值模拟了大信号深度调制情形下VCSEL的非线性动力学特性，实现了类似于边缘发射激光器的分岔，周期加倍分岔，多稳和混沌状态的稳定控制，得到分岔点位置和周期轨道与控制参数的变化关系，以及相应地调制参量和自发辐射因子的取值范围，计算结果较好地拟合了文献实验结果。     

微腔激光器数码调制及其光纤传输的研究

从微腔半导体激光器速率方程出发，分析讨论了微腔激光器的脉码调制特性，发现微腔具有较规则的脉冲响应，可以减少误码率；自发发射因子为０．１的微腔，具有脉码率高达５０Ｇｂｉｔ／ｓ良好的调制眼图，微腔激光器在光互联中将有广泛的应用前景。模拟了以微腔激光器为光源的光纤通信系统，给出脉码率为１０Ｇｂｉｔ／ｓ传输不同距离的接收眼图，证明能够实现６０ｋｍ的传输。     

平面工艺制作的定向输出微腔半导体激光器

光学微腔中偶极子自发辐射受到空间和频谱调制,能实现自发辐射增强或抑制效应,而且其有源区体积可以非常小,有利于极低阈值工作和极高的调制速率.在过去的二十多年来,垂直腔面发射激光器、回音壁模式(whispering-gallery mode)微腔激光器以及光子晶体微腔激光器三类光学微腔激光器的研究取得了很大的进展.回音擘模式微腔中,模式光线由于其在微腔界面的入射角大于全反射临界角而受到限制,是一种结构非常简单的光学微腔.微盘激光器作为典型的回音壁模式微腔激光器,可利用普通的边发射激光器外延片材料,采用半导体平面工艺制作,引起了人们很大的重视.但圆对称结构的微盘激光器易于实现回音壁模式的全反射限制,却难以得到定向的激光输出,限制了它的应用.人们往往采用局部破坏圆盘的对称性、整体变形以及消逝波耦合的输出波导实现微盘激光器的定向激光输出.在圆对称的微盘结构中,模式光线在微腔与空气界面上的入射角是恒定的,而在整体变形的圆盘中,如椭圆形微腔中,模式光线在界面的入射角则不断变化,并在某些位置上小于全反射临界角而折射出光学微腔,从而实现定向输出.这种变形微盘中模式光线往往具有混沌现象,因而吸引了人们的注意.     

外光反馈下VCSELs噪声灵敏性的理论研究

从速率方程出发，仿真得到VCSELs在不同腔体结构、自发辐射因子和线宽限制因子情况下，相对强度噪声随外光反馈水平的变化规律。结果表明：减小电流孔径或线宽增强因子可以降低VCSELs对外光反馈的灵敏性，改变自发辐射因子对此影响不大。而传统边发射激光器不属于微腔结构，对外光反馈的抑制能力较弱。     

半径5μm的定向输出圆盘形微腔激光器

基于三维时域有限差分法,对半径为5μm的径向直连波导微腔激光器的模式及定向输出特性进行研究,得到了波长在1550nm附近的高品质因子(Q)横电模的Q值与光场分布特性。基于半导体平面加工工艺制备了AlGaInAs/InP圆盘形微腔激光器,微腔半径为5μm,波导宽度为1μm。该激光器在298K下实现了连续单模输出,阈值电流为4mA。在注入电流为9mA时,激光器的边模抑制比可达33.4dB。基于速率方程拟合了激光器模式强度随注入电流的变化,得到激光器的自发辐射因子约为5.5×10~(-3)。     

半导体激光器的微腔结构调制及其脉码在光纤中的传输

采用腔量子电动力学(QED)方法,定量讨论了平面结构微腔半导体激光器的自发发射特征物理量随腔结构的变化规律.在微腔半导体激光器自发发射因子调制、自发发射寿命调制以及一些实验依据的基础上,提出了微腔结构调制方法.数值模拟了其脉码在光纤中的传输图形.结果表明,微腔结构调制方法在提高脉码比特率方面优于同参数下的电流调制方法.     

量子阱DBR微腔激光器中自发发射的控制

应用腔量子电动力学和量子阱物理 ,计算了量子阱 DBR微腔激光器的自发发射谱 .发现由于 DBR微腔和量子阱分别对光子和载流子的限制 ,单方向的自发发射可以增进约三个量级 ,总的自发发射增强一个量级 .     

Measurement of spontaneous emission factor for vertical-cavitysurface-emitting semiconductor lasers

Using a method based on measurement of modulation frequency harmonics, we have determined experimentally the spontaneous emission factors of GaAs-AlGaAs QW vertical cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers with square windows of widths 10, 15, and 30 μm. The values obtained are of the order 10^-4 and scale as the reciprocal of the window width. We have also assessed the reliability and accuracy of the modulation frequency harmonic measurement technique by comparison with the prior technique based on curve fitting to the light-current characteristic     

Intensity noise characteristics of erbium-doped distributed-feedback fiber lasers

We present an experimental and theoretical investigation into the low-frequency intensity noise characteristics of erbium-doped distributed feedback (DFB) fiber lasers. The intensity noise characteristics of six nonidentical erbium-doped DFB fiber lasers are presented along with the characteristics of the grating and doped fibers. An analytical model has been used to predict the intensity noise generated in a linear fiber laser and explain the observed noise characteristics. Overall we find good agreement between our analytical model and observations. In particular, we find the intensity noise at frequencies close to the relaxation oscillation frequency significantly elevated due to excess noise from either spontaneous emission or cavity loss modulation. These results can be used to optimize the fiber laser design for sensor applications.     

垂直腔激光器中弛豫振荡频率的优化控制

从垂直腔面发射的半导体激光器（VCSELs）的结构出发，利用增益与载流子密度的广义对数关系，借助小信号分析法，推出了直接调制情形下驰豫振荡频率的严格解析关系。分析指出，量子阱器件的光子寿命并非越短越好，欲提高VCSELs的驰豫振荡频率，除了增加注入电流，提高微分增益等基本途径外，控制器件的结构参数可使驰豫振荡频率达到极大值。同时，自发辐射因子的可控性，以及降低稳态载流子密度，也都是提高VCSELs驰豫振荡频率和拓宽调制带宽的有效措施。     

Dynamic and noise properties of tunable multielectrodesemiconductor lasers including spatial hole burning and nonlinear gain

A general formalism based on the Green's function method is given for multielectrode semiconductor lasers. The effects of both spatial hole burning and nonlinear gain are included in this formalism. An effective nonlinear gain is introduced by taking into account the influence of the laser structure and the associated distribution of the mode intensity along the cavity length and the frequency and intensity modulation properties of multielectrode semiconductor lasers are studied. A general linewidth expression which includes contributions from spontaneous emission and carrier shot noise is given. It is found that the effective α-factor affecting the linewidth is in general different from its counterpart affecting modulation and injection locking properties due to spatial hole burning and nonlinear gain. The linewidth due to various contributions is calculated for both uniform intensity distributed lasers and phase-shifted distributed feedback (DFB) lasers     

半导体微腔激光器中的自发辐射耦合增强效应

针对半导体微腔激光器的结构特点,以及腔量子电动力学中自发辐射增强效应,采用光增益与载流子密度的对数关系,引入增益饱和项和非辐射复合项的贡献,指出即便是对于理想的封闭微腔,由于非辐射衰减速率的影响,光输出并不随泵浦线性变化。结合频谱和相图分析,给出了自发辐射耦合因子与微腔激光器的辐射阈值、开关延迟时间、驰豫振荡频率和光输出等参量关系的仿真结果,这对于微腔激光器的理论研究和优化器件结构有所裨益。     

Analysis of the phase-amplitude coupling factor and spectrallinewidth of distributed feedback and composite-cavity semiconductorlasers

A Green's function approach to the analysis of semiconductor lasers is formulated in a form suitable for complex cavity structures. Both the spontaneous emission rate and the effective phase-amplitude coupling factor can be accurately evaluated. For distributed-feedback (DFB) lasers, the spontaneous emission rate is strongly dependent on both the facet reflectivities and the grating coupling coefficients. The effective phase-amplitude coupling factor depends on the wavelength detuning from the gain maximum. The calculated linewidth of DFB lasers differs considerably from previous calculated results and gives better agreement with experimental results. For composite-cavity lasers, the frequency dependence of the equivalent reflectivity has a strong impact on the phase-amplitude coupling factor and the spontaneous emission rate. Distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) lasers are investigated as an example of a composite-cavity structure     

Steady-state and transient characteristics of microcavitysurface-emitting lasers with compressively strained quantum-well activeregions

In conventional semiconductor lasers, the dimensions of the optical cavity greatly exceed the photon wavelength, and the photon density of states forms a continuum since it is essentially that of a bulk system. On the other hand, in an ideal laser, one would like to have a single optical mode coincident with the maximum in the gain spectrum of the active medium. We show that substantial density-of-states quantization and enhancement of the fraction of photons spontaneously emitted into the lasing mode can be obtained by reducing the lateral width of the surface-emitting laser. For emission at λ=0.954 μm, the threshold current density can be drastically reduced by increasing the coupling factor to a few percent. For a cavity structure width of 0.3 μm, the threshold current density is 50 A/cm², compared with 250 A/cm² for the 0.6-μm cavity. At lower still lateral widths, the cavity loses its vertical character, and confinement of the lateral optical mode rapidly deteriorates. The large-signal response of microcavity lasers is slightly improved primarily due to elimination of mode competition in intrinsically single-mode microcavities, with relaxation times close to 1 ns. The enhancement of the spontaneous emission coupling factor results in an increase of the relaxation oscillation frequency and improvement in the standard small-signal response of microcavity lasers. For J=10J_th, the -3 dB modulation frequency exceeds 40 GHz. Since low threshold current densities may be achieved in microcavity lasers, the gains in small-signal performance are primarily extrinsic, i.e., higher modulation bandwidths ace accessible for the same injection