In our work we assume that unstable waveguiding is the origin of the pulsed operation in VCSELs. When a mode is better confined in the laser structure, its gain will be higher. If somehow the mode itself could alter the structure in such a way that the confinement is improved, then the mode is able to enhance its own gain, a necessary component for every self-pulsing semiconductor laser. The Kerr effect offers the mode such a possibility.
Minimal rate equations for self-pulsing vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society ; 1 ; 155-156 vol.1
2002-01-01
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TuB4 Minimal Rate Equations for Self-Pulsing Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
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