Room temperature operation of VCSEL-pumped photonic crystal lasers

Author

Lee, Po-Tsung ; Cao, J.R. ; Choi, Sang-Jun ; Wei, Zhi-Jian ; O´Brien, J.D. ; Dapkus, P.Daniel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Electrophys., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

651

Abstract

Recently, photonic crystal defect lasers with different designs and cavity sizes have been realized. Here we present results on photonic crystal lasers optically pumped by a vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL). This demonstration validates the low threshold potential of these laser elements and suggests a technique for their excitation

Keywords

microcavity lasers; optical pumping; photonic band gap; quantum well lasers; surface emitting lasers; MOCVD; VCSEL-pumped lasers; air holes; electron-beam lithography; excitation technique; in-plane localization; low threshold potential; membrane defect cavity; optical resonant microcavities; optically pumped; patterned structure; photonic bandgap cavities; photonic crystal lasers; room temperature operation; slab waveguide; strained quantum wells; suspended dielectric membrane; thin dielectric slab waveguide; triangular lattice; two-dimensional photonic crystals; vertical confinement; wet chemical etch; Laser excitation; Laser tuning; Lattices; Optical pumping; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Pump lasers; Surface emitting lasers; Temperature; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7105-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2001.968982

Filename

968982