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HAROLD Version 7.0: Introducing "k.p." Model to Enhance Quantum Well Simulation

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09 Apr 2024

HAROLD version 7.0 now has a k.p. model for improved simulation of quantum wells.

The new version of Photon Design's highly popular laser diode/SOA simulator now has a full k.p model allowing gain, spontaneous emission and carrier density calculations in the quantum well region to take account the full non-parabolic valence band structure.

Harold 7.0 also includes:

• Support for forward-bias voltages in the Harold QCSE/EAM module.

• Complex version of the mode solver for lossy modes.

• Editable boundary conditions in the HaroldXY mode solver.

• Improvements to the procedure for solving the Schrödinger equation in QWs.

• Multiple bug fixes.

For more information about the powerful hetero-structure simulator for modeling Fabry-Perot quantum well lasers, click here.