Abstract
We have investigated the effects of the Coulomb interaction on the optical gain and the refractive index of ZnSe semiconductor lasers. The Coulomb interaction increases the differential gain, leading to a decrease of the threshold carrier density. Its influence on the linewidth enhancement factor and the nonlinear gain coefficient is relatively small because it increases both the gain and the refractive index simultaneously. We have compared the linewidth enhancement factor /spl alpha/ and the nonlinear gain coefficient /spl epsiv/ for ZnSe and GaAs lasers with the effects of the Coulomb interaction taken into account. For typical values of total cavity losses, the values of /spl alpha/ and /spl epsiv/ are higher for ZnSe lasers compared with GaAs lasers.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
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