Commercial VCSELs reach 0.1-W cw output power

Martin Grabherr; Michael Miller; Roland Jaeger; Dieter Wiedenmann; Roger King

doi:10.1117/12.528492

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16 June 2004 Commercial VCSELs reach 0.1-W cw output power

Martin Grabherr; Michael Miller; Roland Jaeger; Dieter Wiedenmann; Roger King

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Proceedings Volume 5364, Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers VIII; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.528492
Event: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices 2004, 2004, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Following the success in fiber based DataCom, VCSELs start to conquer additional market shares in a variety of other applications like free space optics (FSO), lighting, printing, and sensing. U-L-M photonics presents a new family of commercial high power VCSELs emitting powers of up to 50 mW cw at RT based on top-emitting technology. The devices are available at 850 nm emission wavelength. All devices can be operated passively cooled and provide modulation bandwidths of up to 1 GHz. Wallplug efficiencies are in excess of 25 %. Even higher output power of 250 mW cw from a 80 μm active diameter bottom-emitting VCSEL operating at 980 nm has already been obtained although just beeing passively cooled. Further power up scaling is achieved by arrangement of multiple VCSELs in 2D arrays. For the first time we demonstrate cw output power of 10 Watt cw at RT from compact monolithic VCSEL module of 14 mm² chip area. Transfer of the technology to other wavelengths, e.g. 808 nm and 945 nm, is presented, too, and shows perspectives towards homogeneous optical pumping of solid state lasers. Almost identical device performance levels can be presented for the entire wavelength span. All discussed results are based on highest quality epitaxy optimized for maximum intrinsic efficiency and differential slope efficiency. Oxide confinement is used for current constriction that provides most efficient electrical pumping of the active area. In combination with advanced mounting techniques all mentioned aspects sum up to allow for cost effective VCSEL products in the medium and high power laser regime. The circular output beam in addition to simple heat sinking offers attractive solutions for advanced system integration.

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Martin Grabherr, Michael Miller, Roland Jaeger, Dieter Wiedenmann, and Roger King "Commercial VCSELs reach 0.1-W cw output power", Proc. SPIE 5364, Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers VIII, (16 June 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.528492

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