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Paper Abstract
We report on the development of monolithic two-section dilute nitride passively mode-locked ridge-waveguide lasers.
The dilute nitride material system can cover a wide wavelength range from 1.2 μm to 1.6 μm, while enabling fabrication
on low-cost GaAs substrates. The laser structure comprised 3 GaInNAs quantum wells embedded within GaAs
waveguide and AlGaAs claddings. To achieve mode-locking at 40 GHz repetition rate the laser chips consisted of a 950
μm long gain section and a 90 μm long reverse biased absorber section with a ridge width of 3.5 μm. The mode-locked
laser output exceeded 3 mW per as-cleaved facet with 80 mA current in the gain region and a reverse voltage of 3.8 V
applied to the saturable absorber. The corresponding pulse width was 3.4 ps.
To study the effect of increasing the number of N-related recombination traps present in the proximity of the quantum
wells, we have compared the performance of lasers employing GaAsN or GaAs as quantum well barriers. Time-resolved
photoluminescence measurements revealed that the material comprising GaAsN barriers exhibited a photoluminescence
lifetime of 12 ps with a reverse bias of 5 V. For similar reverse bias, the photoluminescence lifetime for material
comprising GaAs barriers was 108 ps.
Paper Details
Date Published: 27 April 2010
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 7720, Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics IV, 772017 (27 April 2010); doi: 10.1117/12.854473
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7720:
Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics IV
Krassimir Panajotov; Marc Sciamanna; Angel A. Valle; Rainer Michalzik, Editor(s)
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 7720, Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics IV, 772017 (27 April 2010); doi: 10.1117/12.854473
Show Author Affiliations
K. Haring, Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland)
J. Thoma, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)
Cork Institute of Technology (Ireland)
T. J. Ochalski, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)
S. P. Hegarty, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)
J. Thoma, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)
Cork Institute of Technology (Ireland)
T. J. Ochalski, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)
S. P. Hegarty, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)
J. Puustinen, Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland)
J. Viheriälä, Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland)
G. Huyet, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)
Cork Institute of Technology (Ireland)
M. Guina, Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland)
J. Viheriälä, Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland)
G. Huyet, Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)
Cork Institute of Technology (Ireland)
M. Guina, Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7720:
Semiconductor Lasers and Laser Dynamics IV
Krassimir Panajotov; Marc Sciamanna; Angel A. Valle; Rainer Michalzik, Editor(s)
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