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Introduction to the Issue on Optoelectronic Device Simulation

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EMICONDUCTOR optoelectronic devices have received increasing attention in recent years. They are key components of the Internet and other optical communication systems. Lighting and display technologies greatly benefit from breakthrough developments in optoelectronic devices. The complexity of physical mechanisms within such devices make computer simulation an essential tool for performance analysis and design optimization. Modeling and simulation of electronic and photonic devices, respectively, are well developed but separate research areas. The specific challenge of optoelectronic device simulation lies in the combination of photonics and electronics, including the sophisticated interaction of photons and electrons. This issue of the IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS is associated with the 2nd International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), which was held in Zurich, Switzerland, in September 2002. This annual meeting receives increasing response from academic researchers, software companies, and device manufacturers, underscoring the need for exchange and collaboration in this field. The 2004 NUSOD conference will be held in Santa Barbara, CA, August 24–26. (See http://www.nusod.org for further information.) The vast spectrum of optoelectronic device concepts and applications leads to a large diversity of theoretical approaches and

software tools in optoelectronics. We have included 4 invited and 26 contributed papers in this issue, with topics ranging from semiconductor nano structures to optoelectronic device integration. The majority of contributions deal with semiconductor lasers, which represent the most sophisticated and therefore the most simulated group of optoelectronic devices. However, in this issue, the reader may discover an increasing complexity in the modeling of other devices, such as optical modulators, optical amplifiers, and photodetectors, as well as the emergence of new optoelectronic materials such as organic semiconductors.

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JOACHIM PIPREK Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA CUN-ZHENG NING NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA HANS-JÜRGEN WÜNSCHE Institut für Physik, Berlin, 12489 Germany SIU-FUNG YU School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798 Singapore

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Joachim Piprek (M’94–SM’98) received the Ph.D. degree in solid-state physics from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, in 1986. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has worked in the industry and academia on design and analysis of optoelectronic devices and has given more than 40 invited talks, seminars, and short courses in the field. He has authored more than 50 papers in refereed journals, two book chapters, and a book entitled, Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices—Introduction to Physics and Simulation (New York: Academic, 2003). Prof. Piprek chairs the SPIE Symposium on Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices for Lightwave Communication as well as the IEEE/LEOS International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices.

Cun-Zheng Ning obtained the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Northwestern University, Xian, China, and the Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.) from the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Synergetics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1991. He continued his research at Stuttgart until 1993. He was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson, before joining the NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, in 1997 as a Senior Research Scientist in quantum optoelectronics. He is currently the Task Lead in Nano-electronics and Optoelectronics at the Ames Center. He has been a Visitor, Guest Scientist, and Invited Speaker at several research institutions and universities in Europe, China, and the U.S. His previous areas of research have included nonlinear dynamics in lasers, self-organization in non-equilibrium dissipative systems, and statistical physics and stochastic resonances. During his Ph.D. research, he discovered the geometric phase in laser dynamics, thus providing the first evidence of Berry’s phase in nonlinear dissipative systems. Since 1994, he has been involved in the theory, modeling, and simulation of semiconductor nanostructures and lasers. In particular, he has concentrated on incorporating microscopic physics into space- and time-domain simulation to study dynamic, transverse, thermal, and plasma heating effects in edge- and surface-emitting lasers. His other research interests include far-infrared generation in quantum wells and heating-induced ultrafast switching of semiconductor lasers using terahertz fields. He has published over 60 papers in these fields. Dr. Ning served as Chair and Organizer of the Optical Society of America’s Annual Meeting Symposia on Semiconductor Lasers in 1998 and 1999. He was a member of the technical committees of several other international conferences, and Guest Editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of America B feature issue on Spatial and Polarization Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers in 1999. He was awarded the MRJ Recognition Award in 1999 and the CSC Technical Excellence Award in 2000 for research in optoelectronics. He was the winner of NASA Ames Director’s Discretionary Funds for the past three years for his innovative research.

Hans-Jürgen Wünsche was born in Nossen, Germany, in 1948. He received the Diploma, the Dr. Rer. Nat, and the Dr. Sc. Nat. degrees in physics from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, in 1972, 1975, and 1983, respectively. He is currently with the Humboldt University, where he has performed theoretical research on tunneling and high-excitation phenomena in semiconductors. His current research interests concentrate on the dynamics of semiconductor lasers. In 2001, he also joined the Heinrich-Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany. Dr. Wünsche is a Member of the German Physical Society.

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Siu-Fung Yu (M’03–SM’03) received the B.Eng. degree (first class honors) in electronic engineering from London University, University College, London, U.K., in 1990, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in optoelectronics engineering from Robinson College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K, in 1993. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, Sha Tin Technical Institute, Hong Kong, as a part-time lecturer in 1993. In 1994, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, where he was a Lecturer. Since 1996, he has been an Assistant Professor in the same department. In 2000, he worked at Agere System (formerly Optoelectronic Centre, Lucent Technologies Inc., Breinigsville, PA) as a member of its technical staff. In 2001, he joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His main research interest includes the fundamental study, design, and optimization of semiconductor lasers including distributed feedback lasers and vertical cavity surface emitting lasers. He has contributed to the development of computer models to study the dynamic behavior of semiconductor lasers. He is also involved in the design and analysis of high-power semiconductor pumped lasers. In addition, he has conducted an investigation on the application of diffused quantum-well materials to develop high-performance semiconductor lasers. He has published over 90 international technical papers including invited conference and journal papers, two book chapters as well as one book entitled, Analysis and Design of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (New York: Wiley). Dr. Yu was awarded the traditional Departmental Prize by the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University College London in the final year degree examination. He was a Fellow and Honorary Scholar of Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Society. He also held a Croucher Foundation scholarship and an overseas research student award while studying for the doctoral program. He is also in the executive committee and is the Seminar Program Chair of the seminar and meeting committee of SPIE Hong Kong Chapter.