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.