Open AccessAnalysis of hybrid photonic crystal vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
Author(s) -
Haroldo T. Hattori,
Xavier Letartre,
Christian Seassal,
P. Rojo-Roméo,
Jean Louis Leclercq,
P. Viktorovitch
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.11.001799
Subject(s) - photonic crystal , materials science , optics , laser , stack (abstract data type) , optoelectronics , fabrication , resonator , bragg's law , photonic integrated circuit , distributed bragg reflector , photonics , vertical cavity surface emitting laser , semiconductor laser theory , yablonovite , semiconductor , diffraction , physics , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , computer science , programming language
Vertical resonators with a top mirror constituted of 1D photonic crystal membrane on top of a Bragg stack are investigated in this paper. These structures allow the fabrication of compact vertical-cavity surfaceemitting lasers, which can be designed, in addition, for in-plane emission. With this hybrid approach, fabrication problems related to both classical VCSEL and Photonic Crystal lasers may be significantly relaxed, given that a full Bragg stack is replaced by a single photonic crystal membrane and that the Photonic Crystal is not formed in the active gain layer.