Abstract
A method to estimate the spontaneous emission factor β is proposed and applied to the 780 nm oxidized vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers. The proportionality of the measured cavity loss multiplied by optical power to injected current is used. Our results agree better with theoretical calculations than those of conventional light-current curve fitting. The spontaneous emission factor 1: of 0.0021 is obtained for a 2-μm-square device at room temperature. Since only the below-threshold information of cavity loss and output power are used in our method, the obtained β values are independent of any complex and unexpected above-threshold effects such as thermally induced mode-size contraction, as they should be.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2344-2346 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue number | 18 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 5 May 1997 |
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