FRESNEL ANALYSIS OF EFFECTIVE MIRROR REFLECTIVITY IN FOLDED-CAVITY INPLANE SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS

被引:2
作者
CHAO, CP
CHUANG, ZM
LAW, KK
MERZ, JL
COLDREN, LA
机构
[1] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
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10.1109/68.212674
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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
Inside-cavity diffraction loss resulting from unguided regions and 45-degrees internal total reflection mirror(s) is an important issue for fabricating folded-cavity in-plane surface-emitting lasers. In this letter, a Fresnel plane-wave decomposition method was applied to analyze this problem for the first time. The effective reflectivity of an angle-etched mirror was calculated for deviation of the etched angle and different lengths of the unguided region. The results offer design criteria for fabricating folded-cavity surface-emitting lasers as well as other devices with angle-etched facet(s) for surface normal light coupling.
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页码:390 / 392
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