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

Spontaneous emission factor in oxide confined vertical-cavity lasers

We report on measurements of the spontaneous emission factor for oxide-confined InGaAs vertical cavity surface emitting lasers. The spontaneous emission factor is determined as a function of the active layer volume from the measurement of small-signal harmonic distortion at threshold. For a 333 mm oxide aperture device we obtain spontaneous emission factor of 4.2•10 at room temperature. © 1997 ...

Cold-cavity measurement of optical loss from oxide-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Microcavity laser design and performance optimization requires a quantitative knowledge of the cavity optical losses. A generalized method using sub-threshold spectral measurements matched to model calculations is demonstrated to determine optical loss in microcavity lasers. Cold-cavity spectral characteristics are used to extract the size-dependent optical loss for small diameter oxide-confine...

Differential carrier lifetime in oxide-confined vertical cavity lasers obtained from electrical impedance measurements

Differential carrier lifetime measurements were performed on index-guided oxide-confined vertical cavity surface emitting lasers operating at 980 nm. Lifetimes were extracted from laser impedance measurements at subthreshold currents, with device size as a parameter, using a simple small-signal model. The carrier lifetimes ranged from 21 ns at 9 mA, to about 1 ns at a bias close to threshold. F...

Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Confined Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

The two-dimensional photonic crystal (2-D PhC) structure has been investigated as a method for lateral mode control of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). The 2-D PhC structures were designed using an equivalent index model developed for photonic crystal fibers combined with a plane wave expansion method. The etching depth dependence of the PhC structure was incorporated for the f...

Cold-cavity Measurement of Excess Optical Loss in Oxide-confined Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers by Stewart Thomas Mckee Fryslie