Analysis of hybrid photonic crystal vertical cavity surface emitting lasers.
Vertical resonators with a top mirror constituted of 1D photonic crystal membrane on top of a Bragg stack are investigated in this paper. These structures allow the fabrication of compact vertical-cavity surfaceemitting lasers, which can be designed, in addition, for in-plane emission. With this hybrid approach, fabrication problems related to both classical VCSEL and Photonic Crystal lasers may be significantly relaxed, given that a full Bragg stack is replaced by a single photonic crystal membrane and that the Photonic Crystal is not formed in the active gain layer.
Hattori
Haroldo
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Letartre
Xavier
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Seassal
Christian
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Rojo-Romeo
Pedro
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Leclercq
Jean
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Viktorovitch
Pierre
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