Vertical cavity lasers with tapered oxide aperturesfor low scattering loss
- 8 May 1997
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 33 (10) , 869-871
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19970610
Abstract
The authors have fabricated vertical cavity lasers with tapered oxide apertures. The taper of the oxide aperture creates a more lens-like element within the cavity which, as predicted from theory, almost eliminates scattering losses in small devices with a 2 µm diameter opening.Keywords
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