Impact of device parameters on thermal performance of high speed oxide confined 850 nm VCSELs

We study the impact of device parameters, such asinner-aperture diameter and cavity photon lifetime, on thermal rollover mechanisms in 850-nm, oxide-confined, vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) designed for high-speed operation. We perform measurements on four different VCSELs of different designs and use our empirical thermal model for calculating the power dissipated with increasing bias currents through various physical processes such as absorption within the cavity, carrier thermalization, carrier leakage, spontaneous carrier recombination, and Joule heating. When reducing the topmirror reflectivity to reduce internal optical absorption loss we find an increase of power dissipation due to carrier leakage. There is therefore a trade-ff between the powers dissipated owing to optical absorption and carrier leakage in the sense that overcompensating for optical absorption enhances carrier leakage (and vice versa). We further find that carrier leakage places the ultimate limit on the thermal performance for this entire class ofdevices. Our analysis yields useful design optimization strategies for mitigating the impact of carrier leakage and should thereby prove useful for the performance enhancement of 850-nm, highspeed, oxide-confined VCSELs.

Kögel, Benjamin,1979Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology(Swepub:cth)kogel (författare)
Westbergh, Petter,1981Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology(Swepub:cth)petwes (författare)
Gustavsson, Johan,1974Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology(Swepub:cth)johangus (författare)
Haglund, Åsa,1976Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology(Swepub:cth)gu95asha (författare)
Maywar, Drew,1970 (författare)
Agrawal, Govind,1944 (författare)
Larsson, Anders,1957Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology(Swepub:cth)andersla (författare)
Chalmers tekniska högskola (creator_code:org_t)

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