Investigation and modeling of dynamics and stability of long-wavelength quantum-well lasers with carrier transport effects subject to a phase-conjugate mirror has been developed. Unremovable in quantum-well lasers carrier transport affects significantly both cw and dynamic laser performance. Laser stability, phase locking, and dynamics have been studied by the analysis of the laser rate equations describing optical field and carrier transport including carrier diffusion is separate confinement heterostructures, carrier capture and escape in quantum wells. It has been shown, that in long-wavelength quantum- well lasers carrier transport narrows drastically the laser- stability reign in approximately equals 1.5 to approximately equals 2.5 times and increases the unstable -output oscillation frequency in approximately equals 2 to approximately equals 3 times.

Date Published: 24 July 2002
PDF: 5 pages
Proc. SPIE 4751, ICONO 2001: Nonlinear Optical Phenomena and Nonlinear Dynamics of Optical Systems, (24 July 2002); doi: 10.1117/12.475945

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4751:
ICONO 2001: Nonlinear Optical Phenomena and Nonlinear Dynamics of Optical Systems
Konstantin N. Drabovich; Nikolai S. Kazak; Vladimir A. Makarov; Alexander P. Voitovich, Editor(s)