Blue GaN-based vertical cavity surface emitting lasers by CW current injection at 77K

Autor: Tsung-Ting Kao, Shing-Chung Wang, Hao-Chung Kuo, Chih Chiang Kao, Jui-Yuan Chen, Shih-Wei Chen, Tien-Chang Lu
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: SPIE Proceedings.
ISSN: 0277-786X
Popis: In the paper, we describe the fabrication and performance characteristics of GaN-based vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) by optical pumping and current injection. According to the employment of high-quality and high-reflectivity AlN/GaN DBRs in the whole structure, the lasing action of optically pumped GaN-based VCSELs with hybrid mirrors has been observed at room temperature. Due to the excellent results of optically pumped GaN-based VCSELs with hybrid mirrors, we further demonstrated the lasing behavior of GaN-based VCSELs by continuous-wave current injection at 77 K. The laser has one dominated blue wavelength located at 462 nm with a linewidth of about 0.15 nm and the threshold injection current at 1.4 mA. The divergence angle and polarization ratio of the GaN-based VCSELs with hybrid mirrors are about 11.7° and 80 %, respectively. A larger spontaneous coupling efficiency of about 7.5 ×10 -2 was also measured.
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