Title :
Analysis of Ring-Metal-Aperture VCSELs for Single-Lateral-Mode Operation
Author :
Gennady A. Smolyakov;Marek Osinski
Author_Institution :
Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico, 1313 Goddard SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106-4343
fDate :
5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The role of metal apertures in lateral-mode confinement in VCSELs is clarified by a detailed effective-frequency-method analysis of an oxide-confined VCSEL structure. The conditions for suppression of higher-order lateral modes using metal apertures are established.
Keywords :
"Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers","Apertures","Resonance","Gallium arsenide","Distributed Bragg reflectors","Reflection","Inorganic materials","Optical filters","Semiconductor materials","Laser modes"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007. CLEO 2007. Conference on
Electronic_ISBN :
2160-9004
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2007.4453601
