Compact 1.55 μm room-temperature optically pumped photonic crystal mirror-VCSEL

Author

Boutami, S. ; Ben Bakir, B. ; Regreny, P. ; Leclercq, J.L. ; Viktorovitch, P.

Author_Institution

Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Ecully

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

The design, fabrication, and characterization of a photonic crystal mirror (PCM)-VCSEL, a new class of vertical cavity surface emitting laser combining a bottom DBR and a top PCM is reported. The bottom solid DBR includes 40 pairs of InP/InGaAlAs quarter-wave layers. The cavity of the VCSEL is a hybrid InP/air cavity. Single-mode laser emission around 1.55 μm has been obtained by pulsed optical pumping at 785 nm. The threshold power is around 15 mW. This is the first realization of a VCSEL which one mirror consists singly in one semiconductor layer.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; distributed Bragg reflectors; gallium arsenide; gallium compounds; indium compounds; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; optical pumping; photonic crystals; surface emitting lasers; DBR; InP; InP-InGaAlAs; hybrid cavity; pulsed optical pumping; quarter-wave layers; room-temperature optically pumped photonic crystal mirror-VCSEL; semiconductor layer; single-mode laser emission; temperature 293 K to 298 K; threshold power; vertical cavity surface emitting laser; wavelength 1.55 μm; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Indium phosphide; Mirrors; Optical design; Optical pumping; Photonic crystals; Pump lasers; Stimulated emission; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0930-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4385954

Filename

4385954