Gain Measurements on Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Material Using Segmented Contact Technique

Authors :: Zhibo Li
Sara-Jayne Gillgrass
Richard Forrest
Curtis Hentschel
J. Iwan Davies
David Hayes
Peter Michael Smowton
Jack Baker
Wyn Meredith
Josie Nabialek
Craig P. Allford
Samuel Shutts
Source :: 2021 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC).
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: IEEE, 2021.
Abstract: We report direct measurements of the optical gain profile for a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) epitaxial structure, by characterising the transverse electric (TE) in-plane net modal gain using the segmented contact method.

Subjects :: Modal gain
Transverse plane
Materials science
Gain measurement
business.industry
Physics::Optics
Optoelectronics
Contact method
Stimulated emission
Epitaxy
business
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser

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