Recently, there has been some interest in multi-junction vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) due to their scaling properties. In particular the power density and power conversion efficiency (PCE) can be significantly increased. A PCE in excess of 63% has been demonstrated for multi-junction VCSELs, as well as a peak output power of 1kW from chips as small as 1mm^2. Multi-junction VCSELs thus present many interesting opportunities and we will review our development efforts of this technology across the near-infrared wavelength range of 800-1100nm, and covering several applications including the industrial, automotive (LIDAR in particular), and consumer fields.
The demand for high-power vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays is increasing continuously due to the growing market for 3D sensing solutions. In these applications (e.g. face recognition or drive-assistance systems), the distances of the objects of interest vary by orders of magnitude. For this reason, a flexible tailoring of the beam divergence is desired. In this work, we discuss methods to tune the emitted beam profile by only optimizing the epitaxial structure of a VCSEL. We show results of VCSEL arrays with beam divergences ranging between ~10° and 45°. This technique is also power scalable and multi-watt VCSEL arrays can be realized.
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