Evaluation of differential gain of 1.3 μm AlGaInAs/InP strained MQW lasers

T. Ishikawa, Tatsuya Higashi, T. Uchida, Takuro Fujii, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, H. Shōji, Masao Kobayashi

2002 · 14 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

Differential gain (dg/dn) of AlGaInAs strained MQW lasers was estimated from relaxation oscillation frequency (fr), and compared with that of GaInAsP lasers. The estimated dg/dn of the AlGaInAs laser was 1.1/spl times/10/sup -15/ cm/sup 2/ at 25/spl deg/C, which was 1.4 times larger than that of the GaInAsP laser. The AlGaInAs laser also showed less temperature dependence of dg/dn. The degradation of dg/dn in 25-85/spl deg/C was only 28%, while that of the GaInAsP laser was 51%.

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