title: Analysis of hybrid photonic crystal vertical cavity surface emitting lasers.
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: Haroldo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hattori
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Letartre
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Seassal
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rojo-Romeo
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Leclercq
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Viktorovitch