Characteristics of a high speed 1.22 μm tunnel injection p-doped quantum dot excited state laser
Author(s) -
Chi-Sen Lee,
P. Bhattacharya,
Thomas Frost,
Wei Guo
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
applied physics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.182
H-Index - 442
eISSN - 1077-3118
pISSN - 0003-6951
DOI - 10.1063/1.3535607
Subject(s) - lasing threshold , excited state , quantum dot laser , ground state , quantum dot , laser , materials science , optoelectronics , semiconductor laser theory , differential gain , atomic physics , optics , physics
The measured characteristics of excited state lasing in tunnel injection p-doped InAs quantum dot lasers are reported. Excited state lasing at 1.22 μm is ensured by a high-reflectivity facet coating which is designed to suppress ground state lasing in the devices. The saturation modal gain in the excited states is 56 cm−1, which is a factor of ∼2.5 higher than that of the ground state. The small-signal modulation bandwidth for I=4.5Ith is 13.5 GHz and the differential gain is 1.1×10−15 cm2.
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