• DocumentCode
    2136211
  • Title

    Electro-thermal single-mode tuning in field-induced charge-separation lasers

  • Author

    Lin, Chin-Han ; Zheng, Yan ; Johansson, Leif A. ; Rodwell, Mark J W ; Coldren, Larry A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    7-10 Oct. 2012
  • Firstpage
    159
  • Lastpage
    160
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate the wavelength tunability via electro-thermal effect of field-induced charge-separation lasers (FICSLs). A large 6.6 nm tuning range is achieved with only 4.6 mA of tuning current. This high tuning efficiency persists up to about 40 kHz.
  • Keywords
    laser modes; laser tuning; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; FICSL; VCSEL; current 4.6 mA; electrothermal single-mode tuning; field-induced charge-separation lasers; high-tuning efficiency; semiconductor lasers; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; wavelength 6.6 nm; wavelength tunability; Charge carrier processes; Laser tuning; Radiative recombination; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Semiconductor Laser Conference (ISLC), 2012 23rd IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • ISSN
    0899-9406
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0828-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISLC.2012.6348383
  • Filename
    6348383