Highly efficient grating-coupled surface-emitters with single outcoupling elements

被引:18
作者
Eriksson, N
Hagberg, M
Larsson, A
机构
[1] Department of Optoelectronics and Electrical Measurements, Chalmers University of Technology
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瑞典研究理事会;
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10.1109/68.477260
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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
We demonstrate highly efficient grating coupled surface emitting lasers with single-grating outcouplers, An outcoupling efficiency of 94% into air was achieved using a nonresonant rectangular second-order grating in combination with a multilayer reflector below the waveguide, This: resulted in an external differential quantum efficiency as high as 50%, comparable to that of conventional edge-emitting lasers, limited by absorptive loss in the passive grating sections, The lasers have separated oscillators and outcouplers, which facilitates the fabrication of sur;face emitters that possess beam-shaping capabilities through holographic wavefront conversion.
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页码:1394 / 1396
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