Single-transverse-mode 3.4-mW emission of oxide-confined 780-nm VCSELs

1999; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 11; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/68.806839

ISSN

1941-0174

Autores

Nobuaki Ueki, Akira Sakamoto, T. Nakamura, H. Nakayama, Jun John Sakurai, Hiromi Otoma, Y. Miyamoto, Masahiro Yoshikawa, Masaaki Fuse,

Tópico(s)

Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices

Resumo

The authors have fabricated oxide-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with metal apertures exhibiting a spatial mode filtering effect. Single-mode continuous-wave output is enhanced up to 3.4 mW by this effect for AlGaAs-based 780-nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with a 3.5-μm-diameter oxide aperture. From numerical calculations, the round-trip loss difference between zeroth- and first-order optical modes as a function of metal aperture size indicates that there is an optimum point; a 4-μm metal aperture size is suitable for higher order mode suppression of a 3.5-μm oxide aperture device.

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