6 µm vertical cavity surface emitting laserbased on IV-VI semiconductor compounds

Thomas Schwarzl, Wolfgang Heiß, G. Springholz, M. Aigle, H. Pascher

Electronics Letters · 2000 · 29 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

An optically-pumped lead salt-based vertical cavity surface emitting laser is presented. The laser structure grown by molecular-beam epitaxy consists of a Pb0.99Eu0.01Te/PbTe λ/2 microcavity with Pb0.99Eu0.01Te/Pb0.94Eu0.06Te Bragg mirrors. Stimulated emission was observed at 6073 nm below 25 K.

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