Comprehensive analysis of electricallypumped GaSb-based VCSELs

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 17267-17282

  Arafin, S ^a   Bachmann, A ^a   Vizbaras, K ^a   Hangauer, A ^a   Gustavsson, J ^b   Bengtsson, J ^b   Larsson, A ^b   Amann, M C ^a  

^a WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DIFFRACTION; GALLIUM ALLOYS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED LASERS; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; WATER VAPOR;

ACTIVE REGIONS; BURIED TUNNEL JUNCTION; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; CONTINUOUS WAVES; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; DEVICE PHYSICS; DIFFRACTION LOSS; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; INTERNAL TEMPERATURE; MATERIAL DATA; MIDINFRARED LASERS; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; RADIAL DIFFUSION; SENSING APPLICATIONS; THERMAL MODEL; WATER VAPOR CONCENTRATION; WAVELENGTH MODULATION SPECTROSCOPY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 80052230591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.017267     Document Type: Article

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