Coherent light generators – Particular temperature control – Heat sink
Patent
1996-10-25
1998-09-22
Bovernick, Rodney B.
Coherent light generators
Particular temperature control
Heat sink
372 96, 372 72, 372 45, 385 89, 437129, H01S 304, H01S 308, H01S 3093, G02B 636
Patent
active
058125710
ABSTRACT:
A laser cluster for high-power applications includes an array of VCSELs. The array of VCSELs includes a center VCSEL and one or more peripheral VCSELs displaced from the center VCSEL in a hexagonal closest-packing arrangement sharing a pair of common electrical contacts. Each VCSEL in the array is flip-chip mounted on a heat sink to present the backside of the VCSEL. A multimode optical fiber is coupled to receive laser light from the array of VCSELs. The array of VCSELs is operable to generate a laser burst at a wavelength in a range from 950 nm to 1050 nm. In a process for fabricating a VCSEL that can be clustered for high-power applications, a bottom n-doped mirror stack is deposited above an n-doped gallium arsenide substrate. An active region including indium gallium arsenide is deposited above the bottom mirror stack. A top p-doped mirror stack is deposited above the active region. Electrical contacts are applied to the top mirror stack and to the substrate. The laser cluster is packaged and sealed.
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Bovernick Rodney B.
Genco, Jr. Victor M.
Phan Luong-Quyen T.
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
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