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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.Contents: GaInAsP/InP Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers in 1.3 and 1.55 um-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.) Readership: Electrical engineers.

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