Research Article
Modeling of Millimeter-Wave Modulation Characteristics of Semiconductor Lasers under Strong Optical Feedback
Table 1
Definition and numerical values of the solitary high-speed laser parameters.
| Symbol | Definition | Value |
| | Wavelength | 1.55 μm | | Active layer volume | 3 × 10−17 m3 | | Group velocity | 8.33 × 107 m/s | | Active layer length | 120 μm | | Differential gain coefficient | 8.25 × 10−12 m2 | | Carrier number at transparency | 3.69 × 107 m−3 | | Linewidth enhancement factor | 3.5 | | Confinement factor | 0.15 | | Photon lifetime | 1.69 ps | | Spontaneous emission lifetime | 776 ps | | Front facet reflectivity | 0.2 | | Back facet reflectivity | 0.6 | | Spontaneous emission factor | 3 × 10−5 | | Nonlinear gain suppression factor | 2.77 × 10−23 m3 |
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