[OPTICAL REVIEW Vol. 13, No. 3 (2006) 146-148]
© 2006 The Optical Society of Japan
Mode-Stabilized Operation in a Microlens-Integrated 980 nm Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser
Si-Hyun PARK*, Sangyeon LEE1 and Heonsu JEON1
Department of Photonic Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju 501-759, Korea
1School of Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea
(Received September 8, 2005; Accepted March 1, 2006)
Microlens-integrated 980 nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) were fabricated and their mode-stabilized operations investigated. A stable single fundamental transverse mode operation in the microlens-integrated VCSEL was observed. Numerical modal calculations accurately explain the effects of the microlens on mode stabilization.
Key words: vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), microlens, mode stabilization, single mode, fundamental transverse mode
*Corresponding author. E-mail address: sihyun_park@chosun.ac.kr