混合光栅DFB表面发射半导体激光器数值仿真-物理电子学专业论文.docxVIP

华中科技大学硕士学位论文 华 中 科 技 大 学 硕 士 学 位 论 文 II II Abstract Surface-emitting lasers are widely used in many areas nowadays, especially in those fields that require low cost. Surface-emitting lasers are preferred over edge-emitting lasers in this kind of applications mostly because passivation of emitting area for reliable operation is not needed, scalability at the wafer level is possible, testing and packaging are significantly simplified and thus reduces the cost. Currently, the only commercially available surface-emitting laser is VCSEL (vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser). Although VCSEL is already used massively in fields like data communication, it bears a fundamental shortage of short cavity which limits its single-element output power. Horizontal-cavity surface-emitting lasers incorporating second-order DFB (distributed-feedback Bragg) grating however have all the advantages mentioned above for surface-emitting lasers, meanwhile can overcome the short cavity problem of VCSEL, which draws it a lot of research attention. In this thesis we first perform a brief introduction of surface-emitting DFB laser and its numerical analysis method. Then the author simulates a combined 1st and 2nd order DFB surface-emitting laser with the self-programmed time-domain traveling-wave method based numerical solver. In the studied structure, the middle part of the 1st order DFB grating in conventional DFB lasers is replaced by a section of 2nd order DFB grating which works as the output coupler. The main content of this thesis are as follows: A brief introduction of the structure and working principle of the studied combined grating DFB surface-emitting laser. An introduction of the theory and implement of time-domain traveling-wave method based semiconductor laser solver, including optical governing equation, carrier rate equation, optical gain equation, pseudo random number generator and fast fourier transformation. Then validate the solver by comparing the simulation results of