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SimuLase™

SimuLase™ is a state-of-the-art microscopic physics-based software tool enabling a broad class of users, from laser designers, materials growers to educators, to take advantage of semiconductor epitaxy design and optimization that are key underpinnings to modern semiconductor laser modeling.

The first principles approach enables determination /prediction of essential electro-optical properties such as gain/ absorption, refractive indices, spontaneous emission (photoluminescence), or carrier losses due to radiative and Auger losses. While offering unprecedented accuracy, SimuLase also avoids time and cost-intensive experimental investigations or growth iterations by eliminating ad hoc parameterization.
Additional tools are provided to calculate macroscopic properties such as transverse and longitudinal optical modes, reflectivity and transmission spectra, bulk and surface-PL spectra (the latter take into account cavity confinement effects), threshold currents, and even operating characteristics for V(E)CSEL structures.

In addition, SimuLase allows for easy comparisons between experimental and theoretical results. The groundbreaking quality of the underlying microscopic many-body models have been demonstrated in dozens of articles in peer-reviewed journals (see our publications section).

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Download the SimuLase Quick Start Guide.

Download a description of real life examples of how SimuLase can be used to design, analyze and optimize e.g. edge-emitting devices and VECSELs.

Key Features of SimuLase™:

Verified bandstructure inputs derived from the literature or from DFT single electron simulations.

Output data can be easily imported into other commercial higher level device software simulation tools.

An easy to use GUI-interface with dropdown menus allows for easy access to various input controls and allows the user to leverage a host of output features relevant for experimental comparison and publication quality graphics.

Experimentally verified models have led to more than fifty publications in peer-reviewed journals over the last two decades.

You don’t have to be an expert in microscopic, many body physics to take full advantage of this tool. SimuLase™ can automatically preset all relevant parameters allowing the user maximum flexibility in controlling key material’s composition/thickness inputs to achieve a desired solution while exploiting the fit-parameter-free nature of the microscopic models.

Request a FREE DEMO version of SimuLase™ as well as its manual or a quick start guide

SimuLase™ is readily available for the following material families

AlInGaAsP, includes: GaAs, AlAs, InAs, GaP, AlP, InP, AlxGa1-xAs, InxGa1-xAs, InxAl1- xAs, AlxGayIn1-x-yAs, InxGa1-xP, GaAsxP1-x, InAsxP1-x, AlxGa1-xP, InxGa1-xAsyP1-y, AlxGa1-xAsyP1-y, In1-x(AlyGa1-y)xP (x, y between 0.0 and 1.0).

AlInGaAsSb (may be subject to export restrictions), includes: GaAs, AlAs, InAs, GaSb, AlSb, InSb, AlxGa1-xAs, InxGa1-xAs, InxAl1-xAs, AlxGa1-xSb, InxGa1-xSb, AlxIn1-xSb, GaAsxSb1-x, InAsxSb1-x, AlxGayIn1-x-yAs, AlxGayIn1-x-ySb, AlxGa1-xAsySb1-y, AlxInyGa1-x-yAszSb1-z (x, y, z between 0.0 and 1.0).

AlInGaAsSbBi (may be subject to export restrictions), (dilute Bismide) includes: GaAs,
InAs, GaSb, InSb, InxGa1-xAs, InxGa1-xSb, GaSbxAs1-x, InSbxAs1-x, AlxGa1-xAsySb1- y, AlxGayIn1-x-ySb, AlxInyGa1-x-yAszSb1-z, GaAs1-wBiw, InAs1-wBiw, GaSb1-wBiw, InSb1-wBiw, InxGa1-xAs1-wBiw, InxGa1-xSb1-wBiw, GaSbxAs1-x-wBiw, InSbxAs1-xwBiw, InxGa1-xAsy-wSb1-yBiw (x, y, z between 0.0 and 1.0, w between 0 and 0.2).

AlInGaNAs,(dillute Nitride) includes: GaAs, AlAs, InAs, AlxGa1-xAs, InxGa1-xAs, InxAl1- xAs, AlxGayIn1-x-yAs, GaNzAs1-z, InxGa1-xNzAs1-z (x, y between 0.0 and 1.0, z between 0.0 and 0.2).

Wide bandgap AlInGaN, includes: GaN, AlN, InN, AlxGa1-xN, InxGa1-xN, AlxIn1-xN, AlxGayIn1-x-yN (x, y between 0.0 and 1.0).

Please see its manual for a full description of SimuLase™ and its capabilities.

For any questions regarding SimuLase™, including pricing, please contact us at simulase@nlcstr.com.

We offer calculations on a consulting basis for various other materials

All versions include metallization layers (currently Ti, Cr, and Au) and dielectric coatings (currently Si3N4, Al2O3, SiO2, Ta2O5, TiO2, and Y2O3). Other metals and coatings will be included (at no extra cost) upon request. Please contact us for possible versions of SimuLase™ for semiconductor materials outside the mentioned families or customized mixtures.

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