SURFACE SKIMMING BURIED HETEROSTRUCTURE LASER WITH APPLICATIONS TO OPTOELECTRONIC INTEGRATION

We demonstrate the ability to fabricate low-threshold current buried heterostructure lasers with the critical active layers in close proximity to the surface of the laser crystal. These structures readily lend themselves to applications involving optical field interactions on the surface of the crystal. We further demonstrate the compatibility of these structures with lateral heterojunction bipolar transistor fabrication.