STABILIZATION OF AGING-INDUCED SELF-PULSATIONS AND THE ELIMINATION OF AN INITIAL TEMPORALLY SATURABLE MODE OF DEGRADATION IN (AL,GA)AS LASERS BY MEANS OF FACET COATINGS

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NASH, FR
HARTMAN, RL
PAOLI, TL
DIXON, RW
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[1] Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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10.1063/1.91018
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We demonstrate that half-wavelength facet coatings of Al2O 3 can arrest the growth of pulsations in the output intensity of (Al,Ga)As double-heterostructure lasers during cw aging in a 70°C dry nitrogen ambient while also eliminating an initial mode of degradation. These concurrent effects of the coatings suggest a common origin for the aging-induced pulsations and the initial degradation and also support a recently proposed model for the origins of pulsations.
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