edited by T P Lee (Bellcore)

With significant progress made in recent years, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) have emerged as potential lightwave sources with a variety of applications, including high speed optical interconnects, parallel data links, optical recording, 2-D scanning, and optical signal processing. This volume, which contains a collection of articles by outstanding experts on this topic, encompasses a broad discussion of the current trends in the development of VCSELs. Discussions include material growths, structure designs, processing methods, performance analysis, improvement strategies, and future prospects. The collection provides a comprehensive overview that may help newcomers to this field as well as engineers and researchers who are engaged in the research and development of this new exciting device family.

• GaInAsP/InP Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers in 1.3 and 1.55 µm-Wavelength Band (K Iga)
• Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers with Dielectric Mirrors (A Scherer et al.)
• Verticle Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Arrays for Wavelength Division Multiplexing Applications (C J Chang-Hasnain et al.)
• High-Performance, Producible Vertical-Cavity Lasers for Optical Interconnects (R A Morgan)
• Epitaxial Design and Performance of AlGaInP Red (650–690 nm) VCSELs (R P Schneider et al.)
• Thermal Effects in Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (M Osinski & W Nakwaski)
• Reliability of Proton Implanted Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (C-C Wu et al.)