Scaling of small-aperture photonic crystal vertical cavity lasers

Abstract

Photonic crystal confinement incorporated into vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) produces reduced excess loss as the aperture diameter decreases. The improved scaling enables a new topology of coupled vertical cavity lasers.

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Keywords

Photonic crystals, Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers, Threshold current, Apertures, Surface emitting lasers, Optical resonators, Optical scattering, Optical losses, Optical coupling, Microcavities

Citation

A. J. Danner, J. J. Raftery, U. Krishnamachari, J. C. Lee, N. Yokouchi and K. D. Choquette, "Scaling of small-aperture photonic crystal vertical cavity lasers," Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2003. CLEO '03., Baltimore, MD, USA, 2003, pp. 2 pp.-.

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