Spectral and thermal properties of red AlGaInp RCLEDs for polymer optical fibre applications

Author

Hild, K. ; Sale, T.E. ; Hosea, T.J.C. ; Hirotani, M. ; Mizuno, Y. ; Kato, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Surrey Univ., Guildford, UK

Volume

148

Issue

56

fYear

2001

Firstpage

220

Lastpage

224

Abstract

The performance of red AlGaInP-based resonant cavity light-emitting diodes is investigated. Using angular dependent photomodulated reflectance to determine the quantum-well (QW) energy, and standard reflectivity measurements performed directly on devices to find the cavity mode (CM), angular and spectral features of the RCLED emission may be identified. The relative prominence of these features changes with drive current, QW-CM offset and temperature. Over the temperature range 15 to 75°C, devices with a larger offset (CM of longer wavelength than QW) are less temperature sensitive, but the prevalence of electron leakage reduces the effectiveness of such optimisations in increasing the output power at elevated temperatures

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; gallium compounds; indium compounds; light emitting diodes; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; optical resonators; photoreflectance; reflectivity; semiconductor quantum wells; sensitivity; thermo-optical effects; 15 to 75 C; AlGaInP; RCLED emission; angular dependent photomodulated reflectance; cavity mode; drive current; electron leakage; elevated temperatures; output power; quantum well energy; red AlGaInP-based resonant cavity light-emitting diodes; resonant-cavity LEDs; spectral properties; standard reflectivity measurements; temperature sensitive; thermal properties;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Optoelectronics, IEE Proceedings -

Publisher

iet

ISSN

1350-2433

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/ip-opt:20010750

Filename

980744