Title :
High performance micromechanical tunable vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
Author :
Vail, E.C. ; Li, G.S. ; Yuen, W. ; Chang-Hasnain, C.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
fDate :
9/26/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Micromechanical tunable VCSELs with dramatically improved performance are demonstrated using AlAs oxidation. Larger aperture (~10 μm) devices achieve record tuning of 19.1 nm with 3.3 mA threshold currents. Smaller aperture (~5 μm) devices achieve record threshold currents of 460 μA, and output powers of 0.9 mW with 7 nm of tuning
Keywords :
laser tuning; micromechanical devices; oxidation; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; 0.7 mW; 3.3 mA; 460 mA; AlAs oxidation; VCSEL; aperture size; micromechanical tuning; output power; threshold current; vertical cavity surface emitting laser;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19961232
