Electrically-pumped vertical-cavity lasers with AlxOy-GaAs reflectors

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作者
MacDougal, MH
Yang, GM
Bond, AE
Lin, CK
Tishinin, D
Dapkus, PD
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[1] Natl. Ctr. Intgd. Photonic Technol., Dept. of Elec. Eng./Electrophysics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
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10.1109/68.481100
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We have fabricated the first electrically-pumped vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL's) which use oxide-based distributed Bragg reflectors (DBR's) on both sides of the gain region, They require a third the epitaxial growth time of VCSEL's with semiconductor DBR's, We obtain threshold currents as low as 160 mu A in VCSEL's with an active area of 8 mu m x 8 mu m using a two quantum well InGaAs-GaAs active region, By etching away mirror pairs from the top reflector, quantum efficiencies as high as 61% are attained, while still maintaining a low threshold current of 290 mu A.
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