Comparison of wavelength splitting for selectively oxidized, ion implanted, and hybrid vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Author

Young, E.W. ; Choquette, Kent D. ; Seurin, Jean-François P. ; Chuang, Shun Lien ; Geib, K.M. ; Allerman, Andrew A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

Volume

39

Issue

5

fYear

2003

fDate

5/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

634

Lastpage

639

Abstract

The wavelength splitting between the LP₀₁ and LP₁₁ modes of selectively oxidized, ion implanted, and hybrid ion implanted/selectively oxidized vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers is studied by experiment and theory. Measured splittings at threshold show marked differences between the different laser structures due to the effects of index guiding and thermal lensing. Theoretical results were obtained using a vector optical mode solver and show good agreement with experimental results. The hybrid lasers exhibited behavior intermediate between the ion implanted and selectively oxidized lasers and could be optimized for high power single transverse mode emission.

Keywords

distributed Bragg reflector lasers; ion implantation; laser modes; laser theory; oxidation; semiconductor device models; surface emitting lasers; thermal lensing; VCSEL; high power single transverse mode emission; hybrid lasers; hybrid vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; index guiding; ion implanted; ion implanted lasers; laser structures; selectively oxidized; selectively oxidized lasers; thermal lensing; vector optical mode solver; wavelength splitting; Laser modes; Laser theory; Optical surface waves; Particle beam optics; Power lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Surface waves; Thermal lensing; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JQE.2003.810264

Filename

1195668