In this study, we fabricated an electrically wavelength-tunable resonant-cavity light emitting diode (RCLED). It was achieved by the combination of an AlGaInAs quantum well structure with an intra-cavity liquid crystal material. In the phase modulator layer, we used nematic liquid crystal (NLC) and cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC), respectively, comparing their difference in the infrared-spectrum. When inserting NLC, the anisotropic properties of liquid crystal enable continuous tuning of mode emission along the extraordinary direction and provide a 58 nm tuning range. The optical characteristics of this device are polarization dependent. On the contrary, the CLC-based device is polarization independent because any polarization of incident light experiences the same averaged refractive index. However, the phase difference of CLC is less than NLC, only a 41 nm tuning range of this sample. We also simulated and discussed experimental results of NLC-based RCLED. The optical pumping of the active region is realized by a CW laser at 1064 nm wavelength and observed at room temperature.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0806112-234113 |
| Date | 06 August 2012 |
| Creators | Yao, Yu-Hsin |
| Contributors | Andy Ying-Guey Fuh, Tsung-Hsien Lin, Wei Lee, Shie-Chang Jeng, Wen-Jun Zheng |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0806112-234113 |
| Rights | user_define, Copyright information available at source archive |
Page generated in 0.0013 seconds