A new method proposed to enhance the optical confinement of the terahertz band in a vertical cavity surface emitting laser involves introducing a square-lattice photonic crystal structure. This structure’s filling factor was optimized by comput...
Dual-wavelength output devices have a wide range of applications in mid-infrared band difference frequency generation, anti-interference lidar, dual-wavelength holographic interferometry, and other applications. Vertical external cavity surface-emitt...
Understanding the mechanism of mode-locking in a laser with high-order transverse mode is important for achieving an ultrashort pulses train under more complicated conditions. So far, mode-locking with high-order transverse mode has not been reported...
The degradation process of Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting lasers with high speed and a central wavelength at 850 nm is investigated via constant-current accelerated aging experiments. Degradation of the photoelectric performances under different op...
The Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) has led to the rapid development of advanced fields such as communication, optical sensing, smart cars, and more. The accurate testing of VCSEL beam quality is an important prerequisite for its effec...
The high-yield optical wireless network (OWN) is a promising framework to strengthen 5G and 6G mobility. In addition, high direction and narrow bandwidth-based laser beams are enormously noteworthy for high data transmission over standard optical fib...
In this work, broadband optical frequency comb (OFC) generation by a gain-switching vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) subject to optical injection is investigated experimentally. During implementing the experiment, a 1550 nm VCSEL under...
A simple, versatile model for the dynamics of electrically and optically pumped vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers, which are mode locked by a semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror, is presented. The difference between the laser opera...
A double-cavity vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) can effectively suppress high-order transverse modes and achieve a high side-mode suppression ratio (SMSR). However, the double cavity also results in increased fundamental mode loss, red...
Low threshold current and polarization-stabilized 795 nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are fabricated by integrating a surface grating of high polarization selectivity and high reflectivity. The rigorous coupled-wave analysis metho...
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have emerged as essential light sources for atomic-precision measurement, quantum-secure communication, high-speed optical transmission, and laser coherent scanning detection, owing to their low power...
We propose a highly polarized vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) consisting of staggered InGaN multiple quantum wells (MQWs), with the resonance cavity and polarization enabled by a bottom nanoporous (NP) n-GaN distributed Bragg reflector...
This paper reviews past research and the current state-of-the-art concerning gallium nitride-based vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (GaN-VCSELs) incorporating distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs). This paper reviews structures developed during...
In this study, a novel metal-dielectric film mode filter structure that can flexibly regulate the transverse mode inside vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) is proposed. The number, volume, and stability of transverse modes inside the VC...
A highly strained InGaAs quantum well (QW) vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with low threshold current density, high efficiency and output power emissions around 1130 nm was grown by MOCVD. Its static characteristics at room temperature...
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are essential for exhibiting single-transverse-mode output characteristics, which are critical for applications in quantum sensing, optical interconnection, and laser printing. In this study, we achiev...
In this study, we theoretically designed and experimentally fabricated an InGaN vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with a tunnel junction (TJ) structure. From numerical simulation results, the optical loss of the device can be reduced by...
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have been widely used in consumer electronics, light detection and ranging, optical interconnects, atomic sensors, and so on. In this paper, a VCSEL with the surface metastructure like one-dimensional...
This paper studied a multi-channel self-mixing interferometric vibration measurement system based on a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser array. A 1 × 8 laser array was utilized to irradiate multiple positions of a vibrating target to estab...
Blue lasers are integral to a variety of applications, including marine communication, underwater resource exploration, cold laser processing, laser medicine, and beyond. Vertical external cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) have the advantages...
An electrically injected vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with quantum-well-embedded InGaN quantum dots (QDs) as the active region was designed. The InGaN QD size and cavity length were optimized using PICS3D simulation software to achi...
We review the history, development, design principles, experimental operating characteristics, and specialized architectures of interband cascade lasers for the mid-wave infrared spectral region. We discuss the present understanding of the mechanisms...
This article presents the results of a numerical analysis of a nitride-based vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL). The analyzed laser features an upper mirror composed of a monolithic high-contrast grating (MHCG) and a dielectric bottom mir...
Wireless charging systems are critical for safely and efficiently recharging mobile electronic devices. Current wireless charging technologies involving inductive coupling, magnetic resonance coupling, and microwave transmission are bulky, require co...
We propose a simple method to generate broadband polarization chaos using two mutually coupled free-running vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). Specifically, we quantitatively investigate the effect of critical external parameters (bias...
The vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) has unique advantages over the conventional edge-emitting laser and has recently attracted a lot of attention. However, the output power of GaN-based VCSEL is still low due to the large electron leak...
The current progress of energy-efficient high-speed VCSELs based on GaAs substrates is presented. Novel approaches for the design of VCSELs are presented, potentially leading to larger bandwidth bit rates and lower power consumption. The first approa...
Single-mode long-wavelength (LW) vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) present an inexpensive alternative to DFB-lasers for data communication in next-generation giga data centers, where optical links with large transmission distances are...
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) have made remarkable progress, are being used across a wide range of consumer electronic applications, and have particularly received much attention from the telecom and datacom industries. However, se...
In this paper, we demonstrate the design and fabrication of a high-power, high-speed flip-chip vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) for light detection and ranging (LiDAR) systems. The optoelectronic characteristics and modulation speeds of...
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are commonly used in high-speed optical communication and 3D sensing applications. Both of these applications require high switching frequency and a short rise time of the VCSEL current. The parasitic...
Spin-polarized vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (spin-VCSELs) with birefringence-induced polarization oscillations have been proposed to generate desired photonic microwave signals. Here, we numerically investigate the generation of photonic m...
We propose a generalized supervised learning algorithm for multilayer photonic spiking neural networks (SNNs) by combining the spike-timing dependent plasticity (STDP) rule and the gradient descent mechanism. A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser...
We propose a novel scheme for generating high-frequency millimeter-wave signals by exploiting period-one (P1) dynamics in a mutual injection configuration of two spin-polarized vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (spin-VCSELs). The frequency of t...
We propose a time-delay signature suppressed broadband chaotic (TSBC) carrier generation scheme and theoretically investigate its performance in a dual-polarization bidirectional chaotic communication system based on synchronized vertical-cavity surf...
To meet the performance goals of fifth generation (5G) and future sixth generation (6G) optical wireless communication (OWC) and sensing systems, we seek to develop low-cost, reliable, compact lasers capable of sourcing 5–20 Gb/s (ideally up to 100 G...
In this work, the architecture of a high-power InAlGaP/InGaP vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with an emission wavelength of 680 nm was studied. The design of quantum well, including the well thickness, indium composition, and barrier a...
In this paper, we consider several designs for nitride-based vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) with a top semiconductor-metal subwavelength grating (SMSG) as the facet mirror. The constructions of the bottom distributed Bragg reflector...
We present the simulation-guided design and experimental demonstration of high-speed 940 nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). Utilizing established device optimization principles, a simulation study was conducted focusing on the numbe...
We demonstrate compact, low power, lightweight laser-based sensors for measuring trace gas species in the atmosphere designed specifically for electronic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms. The sensors utilize non-intrusive optical sensing techn...
A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) is easily made into a two-dimensional array to improve its output power. However, if the near-field complex amplitude output cannot be stabilized in the lowest supermode generated by the fundamental tr...
Based on the spiking dynamics of the electrically controlled vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with an embedded saturable absorber (VCSEL-SA), we propose an image transmission system using two unidirectionally coupled VCSEL-SAs and numerically i...
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL)-based transmission over multimode fiber (MMF) has achieved data rates of 100G per lane and is progressing towards 200G/lane, which demands more modal bandwidth from MMF to ensure adequate transmission re...
VCSEL (vertical cavity surface emitting laser) is a promising optoelectronic device, but its high manufacturing cost limits its scope of applications. Growing on larger size wafers is an effective way to reduce the cost. However, the growth rate unif...
The spin-exchange-pumped nuclear magnetic resonance gyroscope (NMRG) is a pivotal tool in quantum navigation. The transverse relaxation of atoms critically impacts the NMRG’s performance parameters and is essential for judging normal operation....
The long-term reliability of the commercially available vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) at 1310 nm wavelength is investigated. To do so, a high current accelerated life test is used to evaluate the 1310 nm VCSEL reliability. Variations...
We numerically investigate spin-controlled vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (spin-VCSELs) for local oscillators, which are based on an injection locking technique used in coherent optical communications. Under the spin polarization modulation...
Directly modulated long-wavelength vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) are considered for the implementation of sliceable bandwidth/bitrate variable transceivers for very high capacity transmission (higher than 50 Gb/s per wavelength) in...
Based on the chaotic polarization system of optically injected cascaded vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), we propose a novel implementation scheme for high-speed optical chaotic data selection logic operations. Under the condition whe...
Advanced light sources in the blue-green band are crucial for underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) systems. Vertical-external-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VECSELs) can produce high output power and good beam quality, making them suitab...
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