Microscopic Many-Body Model for Mode-Locked and Multi-Wavelength Operation in Vertical External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

A numerical model based on microscopic many-body dynamics is used to simulate mode-locking and multi-wavelength operation in VECSELs. The electromagnetic field is propagated using Maxwell's equation and coupled to the semiconductor Bloch equations for QW carrier dynamics on the level of second Born Markov approximation.