Novel design of a hybrid-cavity surface-emitting laser

Author

Gerhold, Michael D. ; Onischenko, Alexander I. ; Sarma, J. ; Bhattacharya, Pallab

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

34

Issue

3

fYear

1998

fDate

3/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

506

Lastpage

511

Abstract

A new type of vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) is proposed and analyzed to show the possibility of optical pumping from an integrated edge-emitting laser. With this scheme, it may be possible to make VCSEL´s of very small dimensions and VCSEL arrays. The laser design utilizes dopant induced intermixing of quantum wells (QW´s) to provide different gain regions for the surface and edge-emitting sections. The multimode rate equations are used to evaluate the possibility of such a laser and the roles of the various design parameters are discussed. It is seen that efficient surface photon emission is possible for high vertical-cavity mirror reflectivities and sufficient separation of bandgap energies for the two QW gain regions

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; optical pumping; quantum well lasers; reflectivity; surface emitting lasers; QW gain regions; VCSEL arrays; bandgap energies; high vertical-cavity mirror reflectivities; hybrid-cavity surface-emitting laser design; integrated edge-emitting laser; laser design; optical pumping; quantum well intermixing; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser; Equations; Mirrors; Optical design; Optical pumping; Photonic band gap; Pump lasers; Quantum well lasers; Reflectivity; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/3.661459

Filename

661459