Advanced numerical simulators

Advanced numerical simulations and simulators

We need simulation tools for understanding new phenomena as well as designing devices based on the understanding. Simulations that we are carrying out include photonic simulations, gain modeling, carrier transport, and thermal simulations. Especially, the 3D vectorial simulation is numerically most demanding, since the feature size of nano-structured devices is much smaller than the entire device size. We have developed two numerically efficient 3D photonic simulators, based on modal expansion and quasi-normal mode picture. The simulators and simulations of our interest are listed below:

  • Numerically efficient 3D photonic simulators
  • Spatio-temportal rate equations
  • Self-consistently coupled laser simulators of photonic, carrier transporting, and thermal models
Simulator

Related publications

  • A. Taghizadeh, J. Mørk, and I.-S. Chung*, “Numerical Investigation of Vertical Cavity Lasers with High-Contrast Gratings Using the Fourier Modal Methods,” Journal of Lightwave Technology 34(18), 4240-4251 (2016). [link]
  • A. Taghizadeh and I.-S. Chung, “Efficient Quality-Factor Estimation of a vertical cavity employing a high contrast grating,” 17th International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD) TuA3, Copenhagen, Denmark (2017).
  • A. Lupi, I.-S. Chung, and K. Yvind*, “Electrical injection schemes for nanolasers,” IEEE Photonic. Tech. L. 26(4), 330-333 (2014). [link]
  • M. Dems*, I.-S. Chung, P. Nyakas, S. Bischoff, and K. Panajotov, “Numerical methods for modeling photonic crystal VCSELs,” Optics Express 18, 16042-16054 (2010). [link]