Effect of gain saturation on injection laser switching

Gain saturation is introduced into the laser‐coupled rate equations. Numerical and analytical solutions show considerable damping of relaxation oscillations for small amounts of saturation.

[1]  Robert D. Burnham,et al.  GaAs/GaAlAs diode lasers with angled pumping stripes , 1978 .

[2]  Takeshi Kobayashi,et al.  Dynamic Behavior of Buried Heterostructure Laser , 1976 .

[3]  H. Sommers,et al.  The power spectrum of injection lasers: The theory and experiment on a nonlinear model of lasing , 1976 .

[4]  H. Kawaguchi,et al.  Lasing Characteristics of Very Narrow Planar Stripe Lasers , 1977 .

[5]  Henry Kressel,et al.  Semiconductor Lasers and Heterojunction LEDs , 1977 .

[6]  Naoki Chinone,et al.  Transverse mode stabilized Al x Ga 1-x As injection lasers with channeled-substrate-planar structure , 1978 .

[7]  R. Lang,et al.  Unstable horizontal transverse modes and their stabilization with a new stripe structure , 1977 .

[8]  G. Arnold,et al.  Modulation behavior of semiconductor injection lasers , 1977 .

[9]  B. Zee,et al.  Broadening mechanism in semiconductor (GaAs) lasers: Limitations to single mode power emission , 1978 .

[10]  Donald R. Scifres,et al.  Curved stripe GaAs : GaAlAs diode lasers and waveguides , 1978 .

[11]  K. Kasahara,et al.  Dynamic properties of transverse junction stripe lasers , 1977 .

[12]  P. M. Boers,et al.  Dynamic behaviour of semiconductor lasers , 1975 .

[13]  D. Scifres,et al.  Analysis of gain-induced waveguiding in stripe geometry diode lasers , 1978, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics.

[14]  Michiharu Nakamura,et al.  Effects of lateral mode and carrier density profile on dynamic behaviors of semiconductor lasers , 1978 .

[15]  P. Brosson,et al.  Behavior of threshold current and polarization of stimulated emission of GaAs injection lasers under uniaxial stress , 1973 .

[16]  Paul Anthony Kirkby,et al.  Observations of self-focusing in stripe geometry semiconductor lasers and the development of a comprehensive model of their operation , 1977 .

[17]  K Furuya,et al.  Reduction of resonancelike peak in direct modulation due to carrier diffusion in injection laser. , 1978, Applied optics.