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Title: Effect of the photon lifetime on the characteristics of 850-nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with fully doped distributed Bragg reflectors and an oxide current aperture

Abstract

The effect of the photon lifetime in an optical microcavity on the characteristics of 850-nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) with fully doped distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) and an oxide current aperture is studied. The photon lifetime in the microcavity is controlled by varying the upper DBR reflectance. It is found that the speed of VCSELs with a current-aperture diameter of 10 μm is mainly limited by the self-heating effect, despite an increase in the relaxation-oscillation damping coefficient with increasing photon lifetime in the microcavity. At the same time, the higher level of internal optical loss in lasers with a current-aperture diameter of 1.5 μm leads to dominance of the effect of relaxation-oscillation damping independently of the radiation output loss. In the case of devices with a current-aperture diameter of 5.5 μm, both mechanisms limiting the speed operate, which allow an increase in the VCSEL effective modulation frequency from 21 to 24 GHz as the photon lifetime decreases from 3.7 to 0.8 ps.

Authors:
; ;  [1];  [2];  [1];  [3];  [1]
  1. Russian Academy of Sciences, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute (Russian Federation)
  2. Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University (Russian Federation)
  3. Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academic University—Nanotechnology Research and Education Center (Russian Federation)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22300399
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Semiconductors
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 48; Journal Issue: 12; Other Information: Copyright (c) 2014 Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 1063-7826
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; DOPED MATERIALS; OXIDES; PHOTONS; RELAXATION

Citation Formats

Bobrov, M. A., Blokhin, S. A., E-mail: blokh@mail.ioffe.ru, Kuzmenkov, A. G., Maleev, N. A., Blokhin, A. A., Zadiranov, Yu. M., Nikitina, E. V., and Ustinov, V. M. Effect of the photon lifetime on the characteristics of 850-nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with fully doped distributed Bragg reflectors and an oxide current aperture. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1134/S1063782614120033.
Bobrov, M. A., Blokhin, S. A., E-mail: blokh@mail.ioffe.ru, Kuzmenkov, A. G., Maleev, N. A., Blokhin, A. A., Zadiranov, Yu. M., Nikitina, E. V., & Ustinov, V. M. Effect of the photon lifetime on the characteristics of 850-nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with fully doped distributed Bragg reflectors and an oxide current aperture. United States. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782614120033
Bobrov, M. A., Blokhin, S. A., E-mail: blokh@mail.ioffe.ru, Kuzmenkov, A. G., Maleev, N. A., Blokhin, A. A., Zadiranov, Yu. M., Nikitina, E. V., and Ustinov, V. M. 2014. "Effect of the photon lifetime on the characteristics of 850-nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with fully doped distributed Bragg reflectors and an oxide current aperture". United States. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782614120033.
@article{osti_22300399,
title = {Effect of the photon lifetime on the characteristics of 850-nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with fully doped distributed Bragg reflectors and an oxide current aperture},
author = {Bobrov, M. A. and Blokhin, S. A., E-mail: blokh@mail.ioffe.ru and Kuzmenkov, A. G. and Maleev, N. A. and Blokhin, A. A. and Zadiranov, Yu. M. and Nikitina, E. V. and Ustinov, V. M.},
abstractNote = {The effect of the photon lifetime in an optical microcavity on the characteristics of 850-nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) with fully doped distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) and an oxide current aperture is studied. The photon lifetime in the microcavity is controlled by varying the upper DBR reflectance. It is found that the speed of VCSELs with a current-aperture diameter of 10 μm is mainly limited by the self-heating effect, despite an increase in the relaxation-oscillation damping coefficient with increasing photon lifetime in the microcavity. At the same time, the higher level of internal optical loss in lasers with a current-aperture diameter of 1.5 μm leads to dominance of the effect of relaxation-oscillation damping independently of the radiation output loss. In the case of devices with a current-aperture diameter of 5.5 μm, both mechanisms limiting the speed operate, which allow an increase in the VCSEL effective modulation frequency from 21 to 24 GHz as the photon lifetime decreases from 3.7 to 0.8 ps.},
doi = {10.1134/S1063782614120033},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22300399}, journal = {Semiconductors},
issn = {1063-7826},
number = 12,
volume = 48,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}