Optoelectronics Device Characterization Laboratory
Optoelectronics Simulation Laboratory
Optoelectronic Packaging Laboratory
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Southern Methodist University |
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| Link to Dallas LEOS Section | Department of Electrical Engineering |
Optoelectronics Simulation Laboratory
The Optoelectronics Simulation Laboratory develops software for modeling and designing semiconductor lasers, optical waveguides, optical components and grating based photonic devices. These programs include:
- WAVEGUIDE - calculates near-field, far-field, and effective indices of dielectric waveguides and semiconductor lasers with up to 500 layers. Each layer can contain gain or loss.
- GAIN - calculates the gain as a function of energy, carrier density and current density for strained and unstrained quantum wells for a variety of material systems.
- GRATING - uses the Floquet Bloch approach and the boundary element method to calculate reflection, transmission and outcoupling of dielectric waveguides and laser structures with any number of layers.
- FIBER - calculates the fields, effective index, group velocity and dispersion for fibers with a circularly symmetric index of refraction profile.
- VCSEL
related (in collaboration with Bob Baird of Finisar Advanced Optical
Components)