Optical characteristics and the linewidth enhancement factor measured from InAs/GaAs quantum dot laser diodes

Kyoung Chan Kim; Ii Ki Han; Young Chae Yoo; Jung Il Lee; Yun Mo Sung; Tae Geun Kim

doi:10.1109/TNANO.2007.914978

Optical characteristics and the linewidth enhancement factor measured from InAs/GaAs quantum dot laser diodes

Kyoung Chan Kim, Ii Ki Han, Young Chae Yoo, Jung Il Lee, Yun Mo Sung, Tae Geun Kim

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We report the optical characteristics and the linewidth enhancement factor (α-factor) of InAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) laser diodes (LDs) with a 5-μm-wide stripe and 1-mm-long cavity. Continuous wave (CW) operation of the laser yielded a kink-free output power of 160 mW with an external efficiency of 0.35 W/A. The threshold current was 28 mA and the lasing occurred at 1286 nm, solely at the ground state (GS) up to a current of 345 mA, without switching to the excited state (ES). Then, to estimate the α-factor of the LDs, we investigated the differential gain and wavelength shift versus the current. The differential gain was 2.37 cm^-1/mA at 1286 nm, and the wavelength shift was 0.00046 nm/mA, which resulted in an α-factor of 0.057 at 1286 nm. The α-factor decreased with increasing wavelength. To the best of our knowledge, this is the lowest value of the α-factor that has been reported so far, indicating that our QD-LD has excellent beam quality under high-power operation due to the elimination of the filamentation.

Original language	English
Article number	4420097
Pages (from-to)	135-139
Number of pages	5
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
Volume	7
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNANO.2007.914978
Publication status	Published - 2008 Mar

Keywords

Differential gain
Laser diodes (LDs)
Linewidth enhancement factor
Quantum dot (QD)

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Computer Science Applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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