HIGH-TEMPERATURE (GREATER-THAN-150-DEGREES-C) AND LOW THRESHOLD CURRENT OPERATION OF ALGAINP/GAXIN1-XP STRAINED MULTIPLE QUANTUM-WELL VISIBLE LASER-DIODES
High temperature and very low threshold current operation of a separate confinement heterostructure (SCH) AlGaInP/GaxIn1-xP (x = 0.43) strained multiple quantum well (SMQW) lasers has been achieved. Continuous wave (cw) operation was observed up to at least 150-degrees-C with an output power of more than 7 mW, which is the highest cw operating temperature ever reported for devices operating in the visible wavelength region. The characteristic temperature between 20 and 80-degrees-C was 130 K. The threshold current and threshold current density at 25-degrees-C were 13.9 mA for a 5 X 160-mu-m device and 430 A/cm2 for a 80 X 770-mu-m device.