LOW-THRESHOLD CW OPERATION OF SQUARE-SHAPED SEMICONDUCTOR RING LASERS (ORBITER LASERS)

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作者
OKU, S
OKAYASU, M
IKEDA, M
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[1] NTT Optoelectronics Laboratories
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10.1109/68.87922
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
The CW operation of square-shaped semiconductor ring lasers is demonstrated with a threshold current as low as 6 mA. The ring resonator consists of straight waveguides and four total reflection mirrors. The lasers are fabricated using Br2 dry etching on an InGaAs/GaAs strained single-quantum-well graded-index separate-confinement heterostructure wafer. The low-threshold CW operation is owing to the high differential gain of the wafer and the low-loss total reflection mirror.
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