Simulation of Photonic-Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers with Air-Hole and Air-Pillar Structures

Autor: Zi-Xian Yang, Chia-Yu Kuo, Gray Lin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Photonics, Vol 8, Iss 6, p 189 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2304-6732
DOI: 10.3390/photonics8060189
Popis: Photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers (PC-SELs), with and without regrowth, are theoretically simplified as air-hole and air-pillar structures, respectively. In this paper, square-latticed air-hole and air-pillar PC-SELs are simulated by a three-dimensional coupled-wave theory model and the design guideline is illustrated with a PC basis of a right isosceles triangular and double circular shapes. The optimum PC filling factor is determined by infinite PC cavity analysis and the slope efficiency of finite-size PC-SEL is then calculated for the lowest threshold band-edge mode. In comparison with air-hole PC-SEL, air-pillar PC-SEL exhibits lower threshold gain, larger gain discrimination but lower slope efficiency. To achieve slope efficiency of comparable value, the cavity area of air-pillar PC-SEL is about four times larger than that of air-hole PC-SEL.
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