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Transverse-mode selectivity in possible nitride vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

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Excitation of various transverse modes in possible nitride vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) is investigated and compared using the effective frequency optical model. In the comparative analysis of laser mode selectivity, two distinctly different configurations of possible nitride VCSELs are considered: the traditional VCSEL design with both (n-side and p-side) ring contacts as well as the uniform-current-injection (UCI) VCSEL design. Our simulation reveals that, during the continuous-wave device operation at room temperature, a multi-mode operation dominated by higher-order transverse modes is typical for traditional nitride VCSEL configurations whereas a desirable single-mode (based on the fundamental LP01 mode) operation turns out to be characteristic for the wide current range in UCI ones. The above different threshold device behaviours are an immediate consequence of essentially different current-spreading phenomena in both VCSEL designs, resulting in completely different not only gain profiles but also temperature distributions within the laser active regions of both VCSELs. Seemingly similar behaviour has been also reported in arsenide VCSELs but it is expected to be much more severe in the case of nitride ones as a result of much higher both electrical resistivities of p-type nitrides and their temperature derivatives of refractive indices.

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Nakwaski, W., MAC´KOWIAK, P. Transverse-mode selectivity in possible nitride vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers. Optical and Quantum Electronics 35, 1037–1054 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026068725681

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