Index guiding dependent effects in implant and oxide confined vertical-cavity lasers

Index guiding dependent effects in implant and oxide confined vertical-cavity lasers Lear, Kevin L. ; Schneider, Richard P. ; Choquette, Kent D. ; Kilcoyne, Sean Patrick "This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DEAC04-94AL85000." Implant and oxide confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers are compared in terms of properties dependent upon the nature of index guiding in the two structures including CW threshold current scaling with size, light-current linearity, pulsed operation delay, and beam profiles. The oxide confined lasers, fabricated by wet thermal oxidation, have a built-in index guide and thus exhibit substantially better properties than do lasers from the same wafer fabricated by proton implantation which rely on a thermal lens to reduce diffraction losses. Colorado State University. Libraries 1996 text ; image application/pdf ECEkll00039.pdf FACFECEN100389ARTI eng c1996 IEEE

Index guiding dependent effects in implant and oxide confined vertical-cavity lasers

Lear, Kevin L. ; Schneider, Richard P. ; Choquette, Kent D. ; Kilcoyne, Sean Patrick

"This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DEAC04-94AL85000."

Implant and oxide confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers are compared in terms of properties dependent upon the nature of index guiding in the two structures including CW threshold current scaling with size, light-current linearity, pulsed operation delay, and beam profiles. The oxide confined lasers, fabricated by wet thermal oxidation, have a built-in index guide and thus exhibit substantially better properties than do lasers from the same wafer fabricated by proton implantation which rely on a thermal lens to reduce diffraction losses.

Colorado State University. Libraries

1996

text ; image

application/pdf

ECEkll00039.pdf

FACFECEN100389ARTI

eng

c1996 IEEE