Photomodulated reflectance as a valuable nondestructive process tool for VCSELs |
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Authors: | Sale TE Hosea TJC Thomas PJS |
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Affiliation: | Sch. of Phys. & Chem., Surrey Univ., Guildford, UK; |
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Abstract: | Optical reflectivity spectra are useful in assessing the structure of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) but show little of the nature of the active quantum well (QW). Here we use photomodulated reflectance to identify a region of an epitaxial wafer with optimal cavity-QW alignment. AlInGaP-AlGaAs visible VCSEL devices fabricated from this region lased well, compared with devices from a nearby control piece of the wafer which failed to lase at all. |
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