Room-temperature optically-pumped GaSb quantum well based VCSEL monolithically grown on Si(100) substrate

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Balakrishnan, G [1 ]
Huang, SH [1 ]
Khoshakhlagh, A [1 ]
Jallipalli, A [1 ]
Rotella, P [1 ]
Amtout, A [1 ]
Krishna, S [1 ]
Haines, CP [1 ]
Dawson, LR [1 ]
Huffaker, DL [1 ]
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[1] Univ New Mexico, Ctr High Technol Mat, Albuquerque, NM 87106 USA
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10.1049/el:20064286
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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Monolithic vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) on Si are demonstrated. The GaSb multi-quantum well active region embedded in an AI(Ga)Sb half-wave cavity spacer layer enables lasing under room-temperature optically-pumped conditions. The 13% lattice mismatch is accommodated by a spontaneously formed 2-D array of 90 degrees misfit dislocations at the AlSb/Si interface. This growth mode produces very low defect density (similar to 8 x 10(5)/cm(2)) and relaxed materials growth (98%) without the use of a buffer layer. Presented are VCSEL lasing spectra, light-in against light-out curves along with defect density measurements performed by microscopy and etch-pit density. A threshold excitation density of I-th = 0(.)1 mJ/cm(2) and a multimode lasing spectrum peaked at 1.62 mu m, results from a 3 mm pump-spot size.
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