Abstract

In this paper an extensive analysis of the methods (See Refs. 1-3 for a review) used for the simulation of bistable lasers with a saturable absorber has been carried out. In particular a comparison between mean field¹ and traveling-wave² monomode¹ and multimode² models has been made with respect to the static behavior (switch on-off current, width of the hysteresis loop, spectrum of emission) of typical structures.

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