History
The first VCSEL was presented in 1979 by Soda, Iga, Kitahara and Suematsu, but devices for CW operation at room temperature were not reported until 1988.. The first semiconductor VCSEL was invented by Axel Scherer and Jack Jewell, two scientists at the AT&T Bell Laboratories. The term VCSEL was coined in a publication of the Optical Society of America in 1987. Today, VCSELs have replaced edge-emitting lasers in applications for short-range fiberoptic communication such as Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel.
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