Far-field emission narrowing effect of microdisk lasers

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Lee, TD [1 ]
Cheng, PH [1 ]
Pan, JS [1 ]
Tsai, RS [1 ]
Lai, Y [1 ]
Tai, K [1 ]
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[1] Natl Chiao Tung Univ, Inst Electroopt Engn, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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10.1063/1.121328
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O59 [应用物理学];
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Far-field intensity distribution of semiconductor microdisk lasers is experimentally measured and the emission angle is found to be much smaller than that of a planar source with the same near-held width. In fact the emission angle is determined mainly by the disk radius instead of the disk thickness. A scalar diffraction theory in the cylindrical coordinate is developed to explain such an emission-angle-narrowing phenomenon and numerical calculation based on a vectorial diffraction theory is carried out to explain the measured polarization state. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.
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