摘要:
A vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (400, 500), and method of fabricating such a laser, for use in an optical communication system (100) including an optical cavity (223, 323) arranged between a pair of distributed Bragg reflectors (402/404, 502/504), an active region (217) in the optical cavity, and an oxidized current confinement layer (215, 315) arranged on one side of the active layer. The current confinement layer includes a component, such as antimony, that is segregated into a conductive layer on one side (221, 321) of the current confinement layer during oxidation.