Optoelectronic Devices Design, Modeling, and Simulation

With a clear application focus, this book explores optoelectronic device design and modeling through physics models and systematic numerical analysis. By obtaining solutions directly from the physics-based governing equations through numerical techniques, the author shows how to develop new devices and how to enhance the performance of existing devices. Semiconductor-based optoelectronic devices such as semiconductor laser diodes, electroabsorption modulators, semiconductor optical amplifiers, superluminescent light emitting diodes and their integrations are all covered. Including step-by-step practical design and simulation examples together with detailed numerical algorithms, this book provides researchers, device designers and graduate students in optoelectronics with the numerical techniques to obtain solutions for their own structures.

1. Introduction; 2. Optical models; 3. Material model I - semiconductor band structures; 4. Material model II - the optical gain; 5. Carrier transport and thermal diffusion models; 6. Solution techniques for optical equations; 7. Solution techniques for material gain equations; 8. Solution techniques for carrier transport and thermal diffusion equations; 9. Numerical analysis of device performance; 10. Design and modeling examples of semiconductor laser diodes; 11. Design and modeling examples of other solitary optoelectronic devices; 12. Design and modeling examples of integrated optoelectronic devices; Appendices.

With a clear applications focus, this book explores optoelectronic device design and modeling through advanced numerical tools. Step-by-step practical design and simulation examples are included together with detailed numerical algorithms, providing readers with the numerical techniques to obtain solutions for their own structures.

Xun Li is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University, Hamilton. Since receiving his Ph.D. from Beijing Jiaotong University in 1988, he has authored and co-authored over 160 technical papers and co-founded Apollo Photonics, Inc., developing one of the company's major software products, 'Advanced Laser Diode Simulator'. He is a Member of the OSA and SPIE, and a Senior Member of the IEEE.