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Spontaneous emission factor of oxidized vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers from the measured below-threshold cavity loss

  • J. H. Shin
  • , Y. G. Ju
  • , H. E. Shin
  • , Y. H. Lee
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2344-2346
Number of pages3
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume70
Issue number18
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 May 1997

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