Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers: Design, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications

Written by those at the forefront of VCSEL research and development, provides a clear insight into the physics of VCSELs, as well as describing details of their fabrication and the massive range of their application. The chapters cover VCSEL design, emission from microcavities, growth, fabrication, and characterization, long and short-wavelength VCSELs, optical data links, and free space optical processing.

Carl Wilmsen is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University, where he has served as Head of the Department and as Associate Director of the Optoelectronic Computing System Center.

Kenryk Temkin holds the Jack Maddox Chair in Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Larry Coldren is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the OSA. He has previously published a book entitled Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits.