PHOTOPUMPED ROOM-TEMPERATURE CONTINUOUS OPERATION OF NATIVE-OXIDE-EMBEDDED ALYGA1-YAS-GAAS-INXGA1-XAS QUANTUM-WELL-HETEROSTRUCTURE LASERS

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SUGG, AR [1 ]
CHEN, EI [1 ]
RICHARD, TA [1 ]
HOLONYAK, N [1 ]
HSIEH, KC [1 ]
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[1] UNIV ILLINOIS,MAT RES LAB,URBANA,IL 61801
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10.1063/1.354868
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Data are presented on the 300 K (and 77 K) continuous photopumped laser operation of AlyGa1-yAs-GaAs-InxGa1-xAs quantum-well heterostructures (QWHs) that have been oxidized (H2O vapor + N2, 425-degrees-C) selectively along the high-band-gap heterolayers located on either side of a GaAs waveguide (WG) region with an InxGa1-xAs QW in its center. Transmission electron microscope images show that the oxide-embedded GaAs-InxGa1-xAs WG + QW active region remains unoxidized and thus is sandwiched between electrically insulating AlyGa1-yAs native oxide layers. The thresholds for photopumped 300 K continuous laser operation of the as-grown and oxide-embedded QWHs are approximately equal after differences in the Ar+-laser photopumping efficiencies are considered.
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