Numerical analysis on current and optical confinement of III-nitride vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Ying-Yu Lai; Tien-Chang Lu; Tsung-Lin Ho; Shen-Che Huang; Shing-Chung Wang

doi:10.1117/12.2038448

27 February 2014 Numerical analysis on current and optical confinement of III-nitride vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Ying-Yu Lai, Tien-Chang Lu, Tsung-Lin Ho, Shen-Che Huang, Shing-Chung Wang

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Proceedings Volume 9001, Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers XVIII; 90010J (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2038448
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We report on the numerical analysis of the electrical and optical properties of current-injected III-N based vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) with three types of current confinement schemes: the conventional planar-Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) type, the AlN-buried type without ITO, and the hybrid type. The proposed hybrid structure, which combines an ITO layer and an intracavity AlN aperture, exhibits not only a uniform current distribution but also an enhanced lateral optical confinement. Thus, the hybrid type design shows a remarkably better performance including lower threshold current and series resistance compared with the planar-ITO type and the AlN-buried type. Furthermore, the multi-transverse mode lasing behavior induced by strong index guiding of the AlN aperture is suppressed to single transverse mode operation by reducing the aperture size. Such design provides a powerful solution for the high performance III-N based VCSELs and is also viable by using current state of the art processing techniques.

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Ying-Yu Lai, Tien-Chang Lu, Tsung-Lin Ho, Shen-Che Huang, and Shing-Chung Wang "Numerical analysis on current and optical confinement of III-nitride vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers", Proc. SPIE 9001, Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers XVIII, 90010J (27 February 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2038448

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