A nitride based resonant cavity semiconductor structure has highly reflective
mirrors
on opposite sides of the active layer. These highly reflective mirrors can be distributed
Bragg reflectors or metal terminated layer stacks of dielectric materials. The
nitride based resonant cavity semiconductor structure can be vertical cavity surface
emitting laser (VCSEL), a light emitting diode (LED), or a photodetector (PD),
or a combination of these devices.