Vertical cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers with injection laser pumping

Donald L. McDaniel Jr.; John Gerard McInerney; M. Yasin Akhtar Raja; Christian F. Schaus; Steven R. J. Brueck

doi:10.1117/12.18293

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1 May 1990 Vertical cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers with injection laser pumping

Donald L. McDaniel Jr., John Gerard McInerney, M. Yasin Akhtar Raja, Christian F. Schaus, Steven R. J. Brueck

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Proceedings Volume 1219, Laser Diode Technology and Applications II; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.18293
Event: OE/LASE '90, 1990, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

Continuous-wave GaAs/GaAlAs edge-emitting diode lasers were used to pump GaAs/AlGaAs and InGaAs/AlGaAs vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) with resonant periodic gain (RPG) at room temperature. Pump threshold as low as 11 mW, output powers as high as 27 mW at 850 nm, and external differential quantum efficiencies of about 70 percent were observed in GaAs/AlGaAs surface -emitters; spectral brightness 22 times that of the pump laser was also observed. Output powers as high as 85 mW at 950 nm and differential quantum efficiencies of up to 58 percent were recorded for the InGaAs surface-emitting laser. This is the highest quasi-CW output power ever reported for any RPG VCSEL, and the first time such a device has been pumped using an injection laser diode.

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Donald L. McDaniel Jr., John Gerard McInerney, M. Yasin Akhtar Raja, Christian F. Schaus, and Steven R. J. Brueck "Vertical cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers with injection laser pumping", Proc. SPIE 1219, Laser Diode Technology and Applications II, (1 May 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.18293

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