Abstract
We report the first demonstration of room-temperature (RT) lasing at 1.3 μm from the ground state of three-stacked InAs quantum dots (QDs) in an In0.85Ga0.85As quantum well, which was grown by atomic layer epitaxy (ALE). For an as-cleaved device with a 2000-um-long × 15-μm-wide ridge structure, the threshold current density (Jth) at RT is 1.55 A/cm2 with the ground state lasing at 1310 nm under pulsed operation. The thermal coefficient of a lasing wavelength shift is 0.53 nm/K and the characteristic temperature is 103 K near RT. The lasing wavelength of the QD laser diodes (LDs) shows simultaneous lasing and the state switching from the ground state at 1310nm and to the first excited state at 1232nm with increasing injection current owing to the gain saturation of the ground state. The performance of ALE QD-LD is comparable to that of the conventional Stranski-Krastanov QD-LD.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 8010-8013 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers |
Volume | 45 |
Issue number | 10 A |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2006 Oct 15 |
Keywords
- Atomic layer epitaxy
- Inas/gaas quantum dot
- Laser diode
- Simultaneous lasing
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering
- General Physics and Astronomy