Title
Monolithic high contrast grating VCSELs: Concept and prospects
Abstract
Recent trend in the research focused on optical communication is to increase the speed and energy efficiency of the signal sources. In the same time, it is highly desirable to decrease the size of the source into submicron level. The driving forces for achieving these goals are growing market for optical interconnects which are widely used in large datacenters and the silicon photonics which in a short time will create a huge market for optical and electronic circuits integrated in a single chip. We present results of simulations of a novel, ultra-small VCSEL device of extremely simplified design. The device uses monolithic high contrast grating (MHCG) mirrors instead of the commonly used distributed Bragg reflectors (DBR). We show that very high reflectivity, required to sustain a VCSEL lasing, can be achieved by a shallow etching of the surface of the laser cavity only. Thanks to the extraordinary features of the MHCG mirror, the cavity and the mirror can be made of a single material. We show that the concept allows fabrication of VCSELs in all material systems used in optoelectronics, e.g. GaN, InP, GaSb, ZnO, Si, etc. Although several times smaller vertical dimensions of MHCG VCSELs in comparison to conventional VCSELs, their properties are comparable with standard DBR VCSELs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550330
2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)
DocType
ISSN
ISBN
Conference
2162-7339
978-1-5090-1468-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marcin Gębski100.34
Magdalena Marciniak200.34
Maciej Dems302.37
James A. Lott400.34
tomasz czyszanowski501.69