Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices
Santa Barbara, March 25-27, 2001
Tutorial
"Introduction to Laser Diode Simulation using PICS3D / LASTIP"
Joachim Piprek (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Opening Session
"Optoelectronic Simulation: An Industrial
R&D Perspective" (9:00-9:30)
Mark Hybertsen (Agere Systems, Murray Hill, NJ)
"Modeling of Edge-Emitters and VCSELs and
Comparison with Experiments,"(9:30-10:00)
Shun Lien Chuang, G. Liu, and J. F. Seurin (University of Illinois,
Urbana, IL )
"Simulating the Modulation Response of VCSEL's
with MINILASE" (10:00-10:30) SLIDES
Karl Hess, Yang Liu, Fabiano Oyafuso, and Wei Choon Ng (Beckman Institute,
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL)
Light-Emitting Diodes
"APSYS Simulations of High-Brightness LEDs"(11:00-11:30)
Nate Gardner (Lumileds Lighting, San Jose, CA) and Chris Kocot
(Agilent Technologies, San Jose, CA)
"Simulation of Light Emitting Diodes Using
Ray Tracing" (11:30-11:50)
Oleksiy Shmatov and Z. Simon Li (Crosslight Software, Burnaby, Canada)
Laser Diodes - Fundamentals
"From microscopic physics to advanced semiconductor
laser modeling and simulation" (1:30-2:00)
Cun Zheng Ning, S. Cheung, P.M. Goorjian, and J. Li (NASA Ames Research
Center, Moffett Field, CA)
"Hierarchical models for multi-longitudinal
mode semiconductor lasers" (2:00-2:20)
J. Kenton White (Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada)
"Coupled Electro-Thermo-Optical 3D Simulation
of Edge-Emitting Lasers" (2:20-2:40) SLIDES
Michael Pfeiffer, Andreas Witzig, and Wolfgang Fichtner (ETH
Zurich, Switzerland)
"Recent developments in the dynamics of
semiconductor lasers subject to optical feedback, experiments and theoretical
musings" (2:40-3:00)
Vassilios Kovanis and Naz Islam (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
NM )
Laser Diodes - Applications
"Simulation challenges for distributed feedback
semiconductor lasers"(3:30-3:50)
J. Kenton White and D. Adams (Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada)
"'Modeling and design issues in high speed
and high power 1.3um GaInAsP laser diodes" (3:50-4:10)
Graham Berry (Agilent Technologies, Ipswich, U.K.)
"Barrier Height Effects on 1.3-micron InGaAsP
Quantum Well Lasers: Experiment and LASTIP Simulation" (4:10-4:30)
Sebastian Mogg (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) and
Joachim Piprek (University of California at Santa Barbara)
"Simulations of Self-pickup Laser Diode
Readout in Near-field High Density Optical Data Storage" (4:30-4:50)
Sergei I. Turovets , X. Shi, R.L. Thornton, J. Epler, M. Morelli,
D. Stinson, and T. Gallagher (Siros Technologies, San Jose, CA
and Stanford University, Stanford, CA)
"Theoretical comparison of MWIR and LWIR
laser diode structures" (4:50-5:10)
Michael E. Flatte', J. T. Olesberg (University of Iowa, Iowa
City, IA) and C. H. Grein (University of Illinois, Chicago, IL)
"Contributions to threshold current in InGaN
MQW laser diodes" (5:10-5:30)
R. Kehl Sink and Joachim Piprek (University of California, Santa Barbara,
CA)
Vertical-Cavity Lasers
"Ultra-fast VCSEL cavity simulations
using paraxial eigenmode expansions" (9:00-9:30) SLIDES
Spilios Riyopoulos (SAIC, McLean, VA )
"Calculating the Optical Modes of Realistic
VCSEL Devices" (9:30-9:50) SLIDES
Andreas Witzig, Matthias Streiff, and Wolfgang Fichtner (ETH
Zurich, Switzerland)
"Multi-Level simulation of VCSEL Devices
and Packages in CFD-ACE+ Environment" (9:50-10:10) SLIDES
A. Przekwas, Y. Jiang, E. Yu, M. Turowski, M. Furmanczyk, A. Fedoseyev,
Z. Sikorski, and Andreas Hieke (CFD Research Corp., Huntsville AL,
and Los Altos, CA)
Photonic Materials and Devices
"Mocasim - Monte Carlo Transport Parameter
Generator" (10:40-11:00)
A.D. Plews and Rob Drury (Silvaco, Santa Clara, CA)
"Theoretical modelling of nonlocal impact
ionization in semiconductors" (11:00-11:20)
Biju Jacob, P. N. Robson, J. P. R. David, and G. J. Rees (University
of Sheffield, U.K.)
"Noise model for photodetectors with distributed
optical amplification and absorption" (11:20-11:40)
Daniel Lasaosa, D. D'Alessandro, Y.J. Chiu, J. Piprek, J.E. Bowers
(University of California at Santa Barbara).
"Simulation Studies of High Gain Photoconductive
Semiconductor Switches used in High Power Microwave Generation" (11:40-12:00)
Naz E. Islam, Edl Schamiloglu, and Vassilios Kovanis (University of
New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM)
Tutorial
"New Features in PICS3D / LASTIP / APSYS" (2:00-5:30)
Simon Li (Crosslight Software, Ottawa, Canada)