We investigated the influence of the band gap wavelength of barrier layers and separate confinement heterostructure (SCH) layers lambda(SCH) on the high-temperature operation of InGaAs/InGaAsP compressive-strained quantum-well (QW) lasers. The optimum lambda(SCH) was 1.2 mum, at which carriers were sufficiently confined into quantum wells. The QW laser with lambda(SCH) = 1.2 mum exhibited low threshold currents of 2.3 mA at 20-degrees-C and 9.7 mA at 100-degrees-C and CW lasing up to 150-degrees-C.