Oxide-confined vertical-cavity laser withadditional etched void confinement

9 May 1996

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 32 (10) , 900-901
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19960579

Abstract

A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser that incorporates oxide confinement with additional etched void photon confinement is described. A room-temperature continuous-wave threshold of 75 µA for a 3.5 µm-diameter lateral device size is achieved.

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