Scaling characteristics of photonic crystal vertical-cavity lasers

Author

Danner, Aaron ; Raftery, James ; Leisher, Paul ; Choquette, Kent D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

7-11 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

178

Abstract

This study shows that photonic crystal vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers exhibit improved optical confinement and resultant scaling of laser properties, as well as single fundamental mode operation over a wide range of device structure parameters. Single fundamental mode operation is achieved for a wide range of device parameters. The use of photonic crystal confinement, in which the etched holes and light propagation are parallel, provides a means for significantly reducing the modal volume of microcavity lasers.

Keywords

laser modes; microcavity lasers; photonic crystals; surface emitting lasers; etched holes; fundamental mode operation; laser mode volume; laser scaling characteristics; light propagation; microcavity lasers; optical confinement; photonic crystal confinement; photonic crystal lasers; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; Apertures; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Etching; Laser modes; Optical devices; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Photonic crystals; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8557-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363169

Filename

1363169