Surface Plasmon VCSEL with Metal Nanohole Arrays

Author

Tanigawa, Tatsuya ; Onishi, Toshikazu ; Ueda, Tetsuzo ; Ueda, Daisuke

Author_Institution

Matsushita Electr. Ind. Co., Ltd., Kyoto

fYear

2007

fDate

21-25 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

323

Lastpage

324

Abstract

This paper presents an AlGaAs/GaAs based vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) in which metal nanohole arrays are formed on the top of the distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) as an application of the surface plasmon resonance. Enhanced output power with lower threshold current is achieved as well as the VCSEL serves temperature stable operating current. In addition, the fabricated Surface Plasmon (SP)-VCSEL enables successful control of the polarization angles to any specified directions.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; distributed Bragg reflectors; gallium arsenide; surface emitting lasers; surface plasmon resonance; AlGaAs-GaAs; VCSEL; distributed Bragg reflector; metal nanohole arrays; output power; polarization angles; surface plasmon resonance; threshold current; vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Gallium arsenide; Optical arrays; Plasmons; Power generation; Resonance; Surface emitting lasers; Temperature; Threshold current; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2007. LEOS 2007. The 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Lake Buena Vista, FL

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0925-9

Electronic_ISBN

1092-8081

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2007.4382408

Filename

4382408