High-temperature 4.5-μm type-II quantum-well laser with Auger suppression

Author

Felix, C.L. ; Meyer, J.R. ; Vurgaftman, I. ; Lin, C.-H. ; Murry, S.J. ; Zhang, D. ; Pei, S.-S.

Author_Institution

Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

9

Issue

6

fYear

1997

fDate

6/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

734

Lastpage

736

Abstract

Laser emission at 4.2-4.5 μm has been observed at temperatures up to 310 K in pulsed optical pumping experiments on type-II quantum-well (QW) lasers with four constituents in each period (InAs-Ga/sub 1-x/In/sub x/Sb-InAs-AlSb). The characteristic temperature, T₀, is 41 K, and a peak output power exceeding 2 W/facet is observed at 200 K. The power conversion efficiency per facet of /spl ap/0.2% up to 200 K is within a factor of 2 of the theoretical value. The 300 K Auger coefficient of 4×10/sup -27/ cm⁶/s extracted from the threshold pump intensity demonstrates that Auger losses have been suppressed by a factor of four.

Keywords

Auger effect; III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; electron-hole recombination; gallium compounds; high-temperature effects; indium compounds; laser transitions; optical losses; optical pumping; photoluminescence; quantum well lasers; 0.2 percent; 2 W; 200 K; 300 K; 310 K; 4.2 to 4.5 mum; 41 K; Auger coefficient; Auger losses; Auger suppression; InAs-Ga/sub 1-x/In/sub x/Sb-InAs-AlSb; InAs-GaInSb-InAs-AlSb; characteristic temperature; four constituents; high-temperature 4.5-/spl mu/m type-II quantum-well laser; laser emission; peak output power; power conversion efficiency; pulsed optical pumping experiments; threshold pump intensity; Chemical lasers; Laser modes; Optical buffering; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Photonic band gap; Pump lasers; Quantum well lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.584973

Filename

584973