Optical device with low electrical and thermal resistance bragg reflectors

Lear, Kevin L

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Title: Optical device with low electrical and thermal resistance bragg reflectors

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A compound-semiconductor optical device and method. The optical device is provided with one or more asymmetrically-graded heterojunctions between compound semiconductor layers for forming a distributed Bragg reflector mirror having an improved electrical and thermal resistance. Efficient light-emitting devices such as light-emitting diodes, resonant-cavity light-emitting diodes, and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers may be formed according to the present invention, which may be applied to the formation of resonant-cavity photodetectors.

Inventors:

Lear, Kevin L ^[1]

Albuquerque, NM

Issue Date:: 1996-01-01

Research Org.:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 870657

Patent Number(s):: 5568499

Assignee:: Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01S - DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT

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H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01S - DEVICES USING THE PROCESS OF LIGHT AMPLIFICATION BY STIMULATED EMISSION OF RADIATION [LASER] TO AMPLIFY OR GENERATE LIGHT
H01S5/18308 - {having a special structure for lateral current or light confinement}
H01S5/18313 - {by oxidizing at least one of the DBR layers}
H01S5/18333 - {only above the active layer}
H01S5/18341 - {Intra-cavity contacts}
H01S5/18358 - {containing spacer layers to adjust the phase of the light wave in the cavity}
H01S5/18361 - {Structure of the reflectors, e.g. hybrid mirrors}
H01S5/18369 - {based on dielectric materials}
H01S5/18377 - {comprising layers of different kind of materials, e.g. combinations of semiconducting with dielectric or metallic layers}
H01S5/2063 - {obtained by particle bombardment}
H01S5/3211 - {characterised by special cladding layers, e.g. details on band-discontinuities}

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DOE Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

Resource Type:: Patent

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: optical; device; electrical; thermal; resistance; bragg; reflectors; compound-semiconductor; method; provided; asymmetrically-graded; heterojunctions; compound; semiconductor; layers; forming; distributed; reflector; mirror; improved; efficient; light-emitting; devices; diodes; resonant-cavity; vertical-cavity; surface-emitting; lasers; formed; according; applied; formation; photodetectors; cavity surface; surface-emitting laser; emitting diodes; emitting diode; light-emitting diode; bragg reflector; vertical-cavity surface-emitting; semiconductor layer; compound semiconductor; optical device; surface-emitting lasers; improved electrical; thermal resistance; light-emitting diodes; semiconductor layers; resonant-cavity light-emitting; semiconductor optical; emitting laser; distributed bragg; emitting device; light-emitting device; emitting lasers; bragg reflectors; /372/257/

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Drastic reduction of series resistance in doped semiconductor distributed Bragg reflectors for surface‐emitting lasers journal, June 1990

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Low threshold voltage vertical-cavity lasers fabricated by selective oxidation journal, November 1994

Band‐gap engineered digital alloy interfaces for lower resistance vertical‐cavity surface‐emitting lasers journal, December 1993

Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers with 21% efficiency by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy journal, September 1994

Elimination of heterojunction band discontinuities by modulation doping journal, January 1992

N‐ and P‐ type dopant profiles in distributed Bragg reflector structures and their effect on resistance journal, October 1992

GaAs, AlAs, and Al x Ga 1− x As: Material parameters for use in research and device applications journal, August 1985

Low resistance wavelength‐reproducible p ‐type (Al,Ga)As distributed Bragg reflectors grown by molecular beam epitaxy journal, April 1993

Drastic reduction of series resistance in doped semiconductor distributed Bragg reflectors for surface‐emitting lasers
journal, June 1990

High power conversion efficiencies and scaling issues for multimode vertical-cavity top-surface-emitting lasers
journal, July 1994

Low threshold planarized vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
journal, April 1990

Low threshold voltage vertical-cavity lasers fabricated by selective oxidation
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Band‐gap engineered digital alloy interfaces for lower resistance vertical‐cavity surface‐emitting lasers
journal, December 1993

Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers with 21% efficiency by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy
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Elimination of heterojunction band discontinuities by modulation doping
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journal, October 1992

GaAs, AlAs, and Al _x Ga _{1− x} As: Material parameters for use in research and device applications
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journal, April 1993