ULTRALOW THRESHOLD CURRENT VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS WITH ALAS OXIDE-GAAS DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS

被引:98
作者
MACDOUGAL, MH
DAPKUS, PD
PUDIKOV, V
ZHAO, HM
YANG, GM
机构
[1] Department of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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10.1109/68.372729
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
An electrically-pumped, vertical-cavity, surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) using an AIAs oxide-GaAs DBR above the AlGaAs-GaAs-InGaAs gain region and a conventional AlAs-GaAs DBR below is described, By selective oxidation, devices with current flow apertures of different areas are fabricated, and in 8-mu m-square devices, threshold currents as low as 0.22 mA are achieved, Being the first electrically-pumped VCSEL to utilize the oxide-based DBR, it demonstrates that the oxide-based DBR is of sufficient quality to realize submilliampere threshold currents.
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