DocumentCode
577921
Title
Electro-thermal tuning of athermal 850nm VCSELs with thermally actuated T-shape membrane structure
Author
Sano, Hayato ; Nakata, Norihiko ; Nakahama, Masanori ; Matsutani, Akihiro ; Koyama, Fumio
Author_Institution
Photonics Integration Syst. Res. Center, Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Yokohama, Japan
fYear
2012
fDate
23-27 Sept. 2012
Firstpage
248
Lastpage
249
Abstract
We demonstrate the athermal operation and the wavelength tuning of 850nm-GaAs-VCSELs using thermally actuated MEMS structure at the same time. A small temperature dependence of -0.011 nm/K and wavelength tuning of 4 nm was obtained.
Keywords
III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; laser cavity resonators; laser tuning; membranes; micro-optomechanical devices; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; GaAs; athermal VCSEL; athermal operation; electro-thermal tuning; temperature dependence; thermally actuated MEMS structure; thermally actuated T-shape membrane structure; vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; wavelength 4 nm; wavelength 850 nm; wavelength tuning; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Gallium arsenide; Lasers; Micromechanical devices; Periodic structures; Photonics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-0731-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358585
Filename
6358585
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