ISSN:
1077-3118
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Surface emitting laser operation at room temperature at λ=496 nm by ps pulsed optical injection has been demonstrated in a II–VI separate confinement heterostructure containing three 80 A(ring) thick (Zn,Cd)Se quantum wells (QW). The vertical cavity was formed by low loss, dielectric, distributed Bragg mirrors, yielding a quality factor for the structure of approximately Q≈2000. The room-temperature threshold excitation corresponds to an absorbed optical energy density of 1.4 μJ/cm2 or, equivalently, to an estimated electron-hole pair density of 1×1012 cm−2. At T=200 K, quasicontinuous wave operation was obtained at an average output power of up to 1 mW and an output/input conversion efficiency of 20%. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.115051
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