Surface emitting lasers for avionics applications

Author

Wang, S.C. ; Dziura, T.G. ; Yang, Y.J.

Author_Institution

Lockheed Palo Alto Res. Lab., CA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

24-28 May 1993

Firstpage

1129

Abstract

Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers offer many unique features that are desirable and suitable for applications in optical interconnect, optical data bus, optical backplane, and optical signal processing. We describe basic device structure and fabrication techniques of GaAs based vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, and discuss key laser performance characteristics such as emission wavelength, beam pattern, threshold current, power output, quantum efficiency, and modulation response that are important to these potential applications. We also describe the recent result on monolithic integration of the laser with an n-channel MESFET driver

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; aircraft instrumentation; field effect integrated circuits; gallium arsenide; integrated optoelectronics; laser beam applications; monolithic integrated circuits; optical communication equipment; optical information processing; optical interconnections; semiconductor lasers; GaAs; avionics applications; beam pattern; emission wavelength; fabrication; modulation response; monolithic integration; n-channel MESFET driver; optical backplane; optical data bus; optical interconnect; optical signal processing; performance characteristics; power output; quantum efficiency; threshold current; vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Aerospace electronics; Laser applications; Optical interconnections; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Optical surface waves; Power lasers; Stimulated emission; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1993. NAECON 1993., Proceedings of the IEEE 1993 National

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1295-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAECON.1993.290784

Filename

290784