1. Crosslight Simulation Software 2001
New Features
& Updates

2. Outline (I) New device applications: EA-modulators.
Optically-pumped lasers.
InGaAsN material system.
Waveguide photodetectors.
Fiber/external-cavity lasers.

3. Outline (II) Pushing the limits: Complete dynamic memory allocation.
Grading of doping.
Electrical and thermal conductivity anisotropies.
Pure thermal boundaries.

4. Outline (III) New material models: Many-body optical gain model.
Flexible refractive index change.
Saturable absorption in active layer.

5. Outline (IV) 3D transient simulation: 3D longitudinal mode dynamics.
Self-pulsation.
LASTIP vs. PICS3D transient models.

6. Outline (V) Powerful optical mode solvers:
Arnoldi direct eigen mode solver.
Radiative mode solver using PML.

7. Outline (VI) Ray-tracing: Ray-tracing for light emitting diodes.
Photodetector incident light scattering and re-absorption.
Issues of photo-recycling.

8. Outline (VII) MOS Quantum model: Confined quantum states.
Tunneling through thin SiO2.