Light-current characteristics of highly p-doped 1.55 μm diffraction-limited high-power laser diodes

Il Ki Han*, Deok Ha Woo, Sun Ho Kim, Jung Il Lee, Du Chang Heo, Ji Chai Jeong, Fred G. Johnson, Si Hyung Cho, Jung Ho Song, Peter J.S. Heim, Mario Dagenais

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    Abstract

    The variation of the light-current characteristics of diffraction-limited high-power laser diodes is investigated with different p-doping profiles in the two-step separate-confinement heterostructure (SCH) 1.55-μm InGaAs-InP laser structure. A dramatic increase in the optical output power is observed in the structure with high delta doping at the heterointerfaces and moderate doping at the thick SCH layer. In the structure, a continuous-wave output power of about 0.8 W at a temperature of 15 °C was obtained with the nearly diffraction-limited central lobe of the far field. Such an improvement of device performance is attributed to a reduction of the injected carrier overflow into the SCH layer.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)177-181
    Number of pages5
    JournalJournal of the Korean Physical Society
    Volume38
    Issue number3
    Publication statusPublished - 2001 Mar

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Physics and Astronomy

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