18 May 2018 Loss analysis in nitride deep ultraviolet planar cavity
Zhongming Zheng, Yingqian Li, Onkundi Paul, Hao Long, Samuel Matta, Mathieu Leroux, Julien Brault, Leiying Ying, Zhiwei Zheng, Baoping Zhang
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Abstract
In recent decades, literatures about visible vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) have been reported. However, due to high optical loss in the cavity, lasing from deep ultraviolet (DUV) VCSEL was still rarely achieved. The optical loss in nitride DUV microcavity was analyzed in detail. DUV nitride vertical Fabry–Pérot microcavity with active layer of AlGaN-based quantum dots and double-side HfO2  /  SiO2 distributed bragger reflectors was fabricated. Optical losses with of the order of 103  cm  −  1 were deduced from the Q value of the cavity modes. The main origination of optical loss in DUV cavity was calculated and ascribed to the interface scattering. The interface roughness appearing after laser lift-off process and overlap between rough interface and standing optical wave were two key parameters that contributed to interface scattering loss. We believe that our results will provide useful information for improving DUV VCSEL devices.
© 2018 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 1934-2608/2018/$25.00 © 2018 SPIE
Zhongming Zheng, Yingqian Li, Onkundi Paul, Hao Long, Samuel Matta, Mathieu Leroux, Julien Brault, Leiying Ying, Zhiwei Zheng, and Baoping Zhang "Loss analysis in nitride deep ultraviolet planar cavity," Journal of Nanophotonics 12(4), 043504 (18 May 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.12.043504
Received: 13 April 2018; Accepted: 3 May 2018; Published: 18 May 2018
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KEYWORDS
Deep ultraviolet

Interfaces

Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

Scattering

Optical microcavities

Reflectivity

Gallium

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