Buried oxide vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser arrays with transparent top electrodes

Summary form only given. We present properties of densely packed all-epitaxial oxide-apertured VCSEL arrays. The devices utilize transparent contacts to increase the available packing density and are fabricated in a planar manner through the use of via holes. Initial results on thermal isolation between devices are encouraging and indicate that arrays with high packing densities based on the proposed architecture are achievable with acceptable cross talk.