Current Trends in Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers

With significant progress made in recent years, verticalcavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) have emerged as potentiallightwave sources with a variety of applications, including high speedoptical interconnects, parallel data links, optical recording, 2-Dscanning, and optical signal processing. This volume, which contains acollection of articles by outstanding experts on this topic,encompasses a broad discussion of the current trends in thedevelopment of VCSELs. Discussions include material growths, structuredesigns, processing methods, performance analysis, improvementstrategies, and future prospects. The collection provides acomprehensive overview that may help newcomers to this field as wellas engineers and researchers who are engaged in the research anddevelopment of this new exciting device family.