High-order transverse modes in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Wlodzimierz Nakwaski; Robert P. Sarzala

doi:10.1117/12.301360

1 January 1998 High-order transverse modes in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Wlodzimierz Nakwaski, Robert P. Sarzala

Proceedings Volume 3320, Tenth Polish-Czech-Slovak Optical Conference: Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.301360
Event: Tenth Polish-Czech-Slovak Optical Conference: Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 1996, Karpacz, Poland

Abstract

The comprehensive, three-dimensional, thermal-electrical- optical self-consistent model of the gain-guided vertical- cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) is applied to study behavior of its transverse modes. Many intensity maxima of higher-order modes were found to disappear because of a complex interplay between a real guiding effect and a gain antiguiding effect in VCSEL resonators. Therefore number of intensity maxima in experimental intensity profiles can not be used as an indicator of the mode order. Radiation losses of transverse modes were found to increase with an increase in their order.

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Wlodzimierz Nakwaski and Robert P. Sarzala "High-order transverse modes in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers", Proc. SPIE 3320, Tenth Polish-Czech-Slovak Optical Conference: Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, (1 January 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.301360

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