Damage from proton irradiation of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers Paxton, Alan H. ; Carson, Richard F. ; Schöne, Harald ; Taylor, Edward W. ; Choquette, Kent D. ; Hou, Hong Q. ; Lear, Kevin L. ; Warren, Mial E. "This work was supported by United States Air Force Phillips Laboratory project funding." Damage resulting from irradiating oxide-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers became significant (threshold shift ≈ 20%, peak power degradation ≈ 20%) at fluence levels approaching 1 × 1013 protons/em2 . The threshold current shifted to higher values, and the peak light output power decreased. Forward-current annealing led to partial recovery of the performance of two of the three lasers for which annealing was attempted. Recent results[1-3] on proton-implanted devices are summarized in a table. Colorado State University. Libraries 1997 text ; image application/pdf ECEkll00026.pdf FACFECEN100376ARTI eng c1997 IEEE
Damage from proton irradiation of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
Paxton, Alan H. ; Carson, Richard F. ; Schöne, Harald ; Taylor, Edward W. ; Choquette, Kent D. ; Hou, Hong Q. ; Lear, Kevin L. ; Warren, Mial E.
"This work was supported by United States Air Force Phillips Laboratory project funding."
Damage resulting from irradiating oxide-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers became significant (threshold shift ≈ 20%, peak power degradation ≈ 20%) at fluence levels approaching 1 × 1013 protons/em2 . The threshold current shifted to higher values, and the peak light output power decreased. Forward-current annealing led to partial recovery of the performance of two of the three lasers for which annealing was attempted. Recent results[1-3] on proton-implanted devices are summarized in a table.
Colorado State University. Libraries
1997
text ; image
application/pdf
ECEkll00026.pdf
FACFECEN100376ARTI
eng
c1997 IEEE