{"title":"Recent Advances in Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers","authors":"Mingsen Pan;Chhabindra Gautam;Yudong Chen;Thomas Rotter;Ganesh Balakrishnan;Weidong Zhou","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3481451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3481451","url":null,"abstract":"In recent decades, photonic crystal surface-emitting lasers (PCSELs), a novel design of semiconductor light sources, have shown huge performance improvement. Based on compact semiconductor heterostructures, PCSELs have not only achieved near diffraction limit beam divergence but have also realized single-mode lasing from a broad emission area. Thanks to its planar cavity design, PCSEL cavities can integrate confinement structures laterally, which can potentially achieve performances otherwise unachievable in the current semiconductor lasers. This paper reviews recent advances in PCSELs, including the high-power PCSELs, laterally confined PCSEL design, PCSEL cavity size scaling for high speed, narrow laser linewidth, and coherent PCSEL arrays.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 2: Pwr. and Effic. Scaling in Semiconductor Lasers","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142524126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elaine D. McVay;Robert J. Deri;Salmaan H. Baxamusa;William E. Fenwick;Jiang Li;Joel B. Varley;Daniel E. Mittelberger;Luyang Wang;Kevin P. Pipe;Matthew C. Boisselle;Laina V. Gilmore;Rebecca B. Swertfeger;Mark T. Crowley;Prabhu Thiagarajan;Jiyon Song;Gerald T. Thaler;Christopher F. Schuck;Adam Dusty
{"title":"Aging Mechanisms of Broad Area ∼800 nm Laser Diodes","authors":"Elaine D. McVay;Robert J. Deri;Salmaan H. Baxamusa;William E. Fenwick;Jiang Li;Joel B. Varley;Daniel E. Mittelberger;Luyang Wang;Kevin P. Pipe;Matthew C. Boisselle;Laina V. Gilmore;Rebecca B. Swertfeger;Mark T. Crowley;Prabhu Thiagarajan;Jiyon Song;Gerald T. Thaler;Christopher F. Schuck;Adam Dusty","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3466169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3466169","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a comprehensive study of early aging behavior (<500>15</sup>\u0000 cm\u0000<sup>−3</sup>\u0000 showed significantly longer delay before the onset of aging (incubation time) than devices with less than 1 × 10\u0000<sup>15</sup>\u0000 cm\u0000<sup>−3</sup>\u0000 oxygen. Generation-Recombination current and Laser Beam Induced Current measurements indicate that defect densities and aggregation are suppressed at the facets by oxygen, which can explain longer incubation times. Diagnostic data and parametric fits to diode simulation models show that increased cavity optical loss and defect density are primarily responsible for gradual power degradation during aging, rather than changes in nonradiative recombination. Mechanisms are proposed that explain this behavior, based on density functional theory (DFT) simulations and known recombination-enhanced defect generation phenomena.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 2: Pwr. and Effic. Scaling in Semiconductor Lasers","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142518160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance Enhancement Reservoir Computing System Based on Combination of VCESL Optical Feedback and Mutual Injection Structure","authors":"Pengjin Zhu;Hongxiang Wang;Yuefeng Ji","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3480455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3480455","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel performance enhancement reservoir computing (RC) system based on the combination of vertical-cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) optical feedback and mutual injection (OFAI) structure is proposed and demonstrated numerically. By simultaneously introducing optical feedback and mutual injection structures into the proposed RC system, the nonlinear and high-dimensional mapping capabilities are significantly improved. The proposed system exhibits the best performance in both single task processing mode and parallel processing mode compared to the other 4 RC systems. Specifically, the minimum NMSE of Santa-Fe time series prediction, waveform classification and NARMA-10 task are 0.0011, 1.058\u0000<inline-formula><tex-math>$times 10^{-8}$</tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 and 0.101 respectively. Furthermore, since two linear polarization modes coexist in VCSELs, the parallel-polarized and orthogonal-polarized configuration is considered. Numerical results show that in all benchmark tasks, the performance of the orthogonal-polarized configuration is generally better than the parallel-polarized configuration in single task processing mode, and the conclusion is opposite in parallel processing mode, which is related to the coupling mechanism between the two polarization modes. Finally, the effect of different parameters on the system performance is explored in detail. In summary, the proposed system is interesting and valuable in the field of high-speed and low-power neuromorphic photonics.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 3: AI/ML Integrated Opto-electronics","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142517866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jun Zheng;Xiangquan Liu;Jinlai Cui;Qinxin Huang;Zhi Liu;Yuhua Zuo;Buwen Cheng
{"title":"Research Progress of GeSn Photodetectors for Infrared Application","authors":"Jun Zheng;Xiangquan Liu;Jinlai Cui;Qinxin Huang;Zhi Liu;Yuhua Zuo;Buwen Cheng","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3476178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3476178","url":null,"abstract":"Silicon platform is the foundation of the modern information industry. Silicon-based semiconductor materials are compatible with the complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process of silicon, which can extend the application of silicon from electronic integrated circuit chips to optoelectronic integrated circuit chips. Germanium tin (GeSn), as a silicon-based narrow bandgap material, has received widespread attention in the past decade, which can provide new functions for silicon optoelectronic integrated circuit chips. By studying how to solve the problems of lattice mismatch and Sn segregation, the preparation technology of GeSn single crystal materials has made great progress. GeSn optoelectronic devices such as detectors and light-emitting devices have been successively prepared. Here, we focus on the latest developments in GeSn detectors, for infrared detection, imaging and high-speed detectors. In addition to review the state of the art work, we also propose some research directions for infrared applications.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 1: SiGeSn Infrared Photon. and Quantum Electronics","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142518007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Down-Scaling of GaN-Based Laser Diodes for High-Speed Modulation Characteristics","authors":"Leihao Sun;Junfei Wang;Chaowen Guan;Songke Fang;Zengxin Li;Junhui Hu;Yue Wang;Boon S. Ooi;Jianyang Shi;Ziwei Li;Junwen Zhang;Nan Chi;Chao Shen","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3474797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3474797","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, the surging need for greater bandwidth in the post-5G and 6G eras has prompted scientists to research visible light communications (VLC). VLC not only addresses the foreseeable limited radio frequency (RF) spectrum resources but also serves as a reliable solution for underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC). For high-speed VLC systems, GaN-based laser diodes have shown excellent potential over LEDs as emitting components. Downscaling laser diodes is considered an effective approach for high modulation bandwidth LDs, which has yet to be well studied in III-nitride material systems. In this work, we studied the key device design parameters, including cavity length, quantum well thickness, ridge waveguide width, and PN-junction distance. We analyzed the internal parameters of such high-speed InGaN/GaN double quantum well LDs and experimentally investigated their impact on the modulation bandwidth of LDs. As a result, a modulation bandwidth of 4.47 GHz (−3 dB) has been achieved. Our work provides valuable guidance for subsequent high-speed laser designs, paving the path for energy-efficient VLC systems.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 2: Pwr. and Effic. Scaling in Semiconductor Lasers","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142518008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Robert J. Deri;William E. Fenwick;Jiang Li;David L. Pope;Matthew C. Boisselle;David M. Dutra;Logan Martin;Mark T. Crowley;Prabhu Thiagarajan;Gerald T. Thaler
{"title":"Slope Efficiency and Voltage Reduction at High Current Densities in AlInGaAs Diode Lasers","authors":"Robert J. Deri;William E. Fenwick;Jiang Li;David L. Pope;Matthew C. Boisselle;David M. Dutra;Logan Martin;Mark T. Crowley;Prabhu Thiagarajan;Gerald T. Thaler","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3472458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3472458","url":null,"abstract":"The slope efficiency and drive voltage of broad area AlInGaAs laser diodes near 865 nm is observed to decrease significantly under quasi-CW pulsed operation at currents well above threshold, in a manner that cannot be explained by thermal effects or carrier leakage over heterojunction barriers. Simulations show that the slope efficiency reduction is explicable by increased free carrier absorption in the waveguide region. Empirical formulas are presented to represent these effects in a closed analytic form suitable for use in simulators for diode-pumped laser systems.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 2: Pwr. and Effic. Scaling in Semiconductor Lasers","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142518158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GaN-Based Resonant-Cavity Light-Emitting Diode Towards a Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser","authors":"Chuanjie Li;Meixin Feng;Jiaqi Liu;Wei Liu;Xiujian Sun;Jianxun Liu;Zhiwei Sun;Gangyi Zhu;Shuming Zhang;Qian Sun;Hui Yang","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3469978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3469978","url":null,"abstract":"The article reports the successful fabrication of GaN-based resonant cavity light-emitting diodes (RCLEDs) with nanoporous (NP) GaN/n-GaN distributed Bragg reflector (DBR). To realize the designed central wavelength and high reflectivity, the precise thickness control of NP GaN layer is extremely critical. By introducing the concept of space charge region in the thickness design of the n\u0000<sup>++</sup>\u0000-GaN epitaxial growth for nanoporous GaN, accurate regulation of the centre wavelength of the NP GaN DBR reflection spectrum was achieved. Under light injection condition, longitudinal mode laser was observed at 438 nm, with a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of approximately 0.7 nm. Under electrical injection condition, the FWHM of the RCLED emission peak was about 3.4 nm.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 2: Pwr. and Effic. Scaling in Semiconductor Lasers","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142452681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Krassimir Panajotov;Andrei G. Vladimirov;Mustapha Tlidi
{"title":"Polarized Frequency Combs in a Mode-Locked VECSEL","authors":"Krassimir Panajotov;Andrei G. Vladimirov;Mustapha Tlidi","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3470227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3470227","url":null,"abstract":"We present a detailed and rigorous derivation of the delay differential equations of the spin-flip model for vertical external cavity lasers with a semiconductor saturable absorption mirror. This model describes mode-locked semiconductor lasers in the ring-resonator geometry with unidirectional lasing. This contribution completes a previous communication [Vladimirov et al. \u0000<italic>Opt. Lett.</i>\u0000, 45, 252 (2020)]. Furthermore, we present a comprehensive analytical derivation that considers phase and amplitude anisotropies, as well as the different delay times for orthogonal linear polarizations. Our findings demonstrate the coexistence of two linearly polarized frequency combs generation with slightly different repetition rates, which can be attributed to the birefringence-induced time-of-flight difference.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"30 5: Microresonator Frequency Comb Technologies","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142517856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultra-Low Optical Noise in Dual-State Quantum Dot Laser on Silicon Under Optical Injection Locking","authors":"Qi Chu;Zhiyong Jin;Feng He;Yong Yao;Xiaochuan Xu;Jiawei Wang;Jianan Duan","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3466988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3466988","url":null,"abstract":"This work theoretically reports on the low relative intensity noise (RIN) and narrow linewidth characteristics of dual-state quantum dot (QD) lasers epitaxially grown on silicon under optical injection locking. The results illustrate that optical injection locking effectively mitigates the influence of excited state (ES) emission on the ground state (GS) optical noise, resulting in a 22 dB reduction in GS RIN at the ES threshold. Within the optical-injection-locked area, both GS and ES RIN can be reduced by a minimum of 10 dB, enabling laser operation at high bias currents while maintaining lower RIN values in both states. Moreover, optical injection locking suppresses the spectral linewidth rebroadening observed at high bias currents, achieving ultra narrow spectral linewidth. This work provides an effective reference method for integrating ultra-low intensity noise and narrow spectral linewidth light sources into silicon-based photonic integrated circuits.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 2: Pwr. and Effic. Scaling in Semiconductor Lasers","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142442974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amirhossein Ghods;Karim Tatah;Mary Stocker;Klein Johnson
{"title":"Scaling Characteristics of Multijunction VCSELs","authors":"Amirhossein Ghods;Karim Tatah;Mary Stocker;Klein Johnson","doi":"10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3467036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3467036","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing the number of active regions is an effective approach for scaling optical output power in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs). LiDAR applications utilizing Time-of-Flight (ToF) mapping methods require power-efficient VCSELs with high throughput and fast rise times to achieve high spatial resolution and extended detectable ranges. This paper presents a comprehensive study on the performance characteristics of multijunction VCSELs. Single-, triple-, and five-junction 940 nm VCSELs are designed and fabricated into both single aperture dies and densely packed arrays. Electro-optical characterization results demonstrate the scaling behavior of these devices, where the differential quantum efficiency increases from 65% for the single-junction VCSEL to 360% for the five junction VCSEL, corresponding to the slope efficiencies of 0.9 W/A and 5.0 W/A. On the other hand, a broadening in spectral response and far-field beam divergence angle is observed by increasing the number of active junctions, which is primarily caused by the stimulation of additional higher order transverse modes. This study aims to analyze the effects of increasing the number of active junctions on VCSEL performance and to address the associated challenges in the development of multijunction VCSELs.","PeriodicalId":13094,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics","volume":"31 2: Pwr. and Effic. Scaling in Semiconductor Lasers","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143611774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}