We report the successful fabrication of a two‐dimensional phase‐locked array of vertical‐cavity surface‐emitting lasers. The array was comprised of more than 160 vertical‐cavity surface‐emitting lasers of 1.3 &mgr;m diameter with a separation of less than 0.1 &mgr;m between each lasing element. The array had a 25 &mgr;m diameter and each of the elemental lasers was located on a two‐dimensional rectangular lattice. The threshold current of the two‐dimensional array 45 mA yields a threshold current of 280 &mgr;A for an elemental laser. The far‐field beam angle of the array was as narrow as 7°, and the spectral purity was found to be good enough to allow for a clear holographic image reconstruction of a holographic memory.