Diffraction loss in long-wavelength buried tunnel junction VCSELs analyzed with a hybrid coupled-cavity transfer-matrix model

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20789-20802

  Bengtsson, Jörgen ^a   Gustavsson, Johan ^a   Haglund, Åsa ^a   Larsson, Anders ^a   Bachmann, Alexander ^b   Kashani Shirazi, Kaveh ^b   Amann, Markus Christian ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; TOPOLOGY; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

BURIED TUNNEL JUNCTION; HIGH INDEX CONTRAST; MATERIAL STRUCTURE; MONOTONIC BEHAVIOUR; NUMERICAL ESTIMATION; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TRANSFER MATRIX MODEL; VARYING TOPOLOGIES;

DIFFRACTION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 57349131101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020789     Document Type: Article

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