Beam control and manipulation in vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

I. H. White; P. Dowd; P. J. Heard; J. A. Nicholson; B. Zhu; L. Raddatz; R. V. Penty; J. C.C. Day; G. C. Allen; S. W. Corzine; M. R.T. Tan

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Beam control and manipulation in vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

I. H. White, P. Dowd, P. J. Heard, J. A. Nicholson, B. Zhu, L. Raddatz, R. V. Penty, J. C.C. Day, G. C. Allen, S. W. Corzine, M. R.T. Tan

University of Bristol

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Abstract

This paper reviews novel techniques which are used to modify the properties of the optical beam generated by vertical cavity surface emitting laser diodes. The main emphasis within the paper concerns the use of etches applied to the device surface either adjacent to or across its optical aperture. Such etches can be used to modify facet reflectivities sufficiently to pin the optical mode precisely and reduce the onset of higher order modes. In addition single polarisation operation is achieved by using deeper etches placed outside the light emitting region. Using this technique, previously multimode components may be transformed to single mode components with precisely fixed polarisation states. The effect of these etches on other lasing properties such as spectral performance and power efficiency is also discussed.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	64-72
Number of pages	9
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	3290
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.298227
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 1998
Event	Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits II - San Jose, CA, USA United States Duration: 28 Jan 1998 → 30 Jan 1998

Keywords

Ion Beam Etching
Mode control
Polarisation control
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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