The hybrid vertical-cavity laser is a potential low current, high-efficiency, and small footprint light source for silicon photonics integration. As part of the development of such light sources we demonstrate hybrid-cavity VCSELs (HC-VCSELs) on silicon where a GaAs-based half-VCSEL is attached to a dielectric distributed Bragg reflector on silicon by adhesive bonding. HC-VCSELs at 850 nm with ...

Vertical cavity surface emitting terahertz lasers can be realized in conventional semiconductor microcavities with embedded quantum wells in the strong coupling regime. The cavity is to be pumped optically at half the frequency of the 2p exciton state. Once a threshold population of 2p excitons is achieved, a stimulated terahertz transition populates the lower exciton-polariton branch, and the ...

are maintained. If the etching depth is equal to an integral number of half-wavelengths, uniformly high reflectivity across the active L. Fan, M.C. Wu, H.C. Lee and P. Grodzinski . mesa is achieved. The top electrodes which simultaneously pump the phase-shifted and non-phase-shifted region are then deposited by evaporation and lift-off processes. Fig. 2 shows the scanning electron micrograph (S...

In this paper we present a vertical-cavity enhanced resonant thermal emitter—a highly directional, narrowband, tunable, partially coherent thermal source. This device enhances thermal emittance of a metallic or any other highly reflective structure to unity near a cavity resonant frequency. The structure consists of a planar metallic surface e.g., silver, tungsten , a dielectric layer on top of...

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