Main resonances in directly modulated semiconductor lasers: effect of spontaneous emission and gain saturation

Boundaries for the primary saddle-node bifurcations related to the main resonances in pump--modulated laser diodes are obtained via numerical simulation. Our model contains explicitly the gain saturation and spontaneous emission terms and we focus on the effect that these terms have on the large sig...

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Autores: Mayol, Catalina, Turovets, Sergei I., Toral, Raúl, Mirasso, Claudio R.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2001
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/48067
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/48067
Access Level:acceso abierto
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Sumario:Boundaries for the primary saddle-node bifurcations related to the main resonances in pump--modulated laser diodes are obtained via numerical simulation. Our model contains explicitly the gain saturation and spontaneous emission terms and we focus on the effect that these terms have on the large signal modulation regime. We find that the spontaneous emission term strongly modifies the qualitative behavior of the instabilities boundaries, while the gain saturation factor manifests itself in the damping of relaxation oscillations and leads to a simple quantitative shift of boundaries.