Influences of Dark Line Defects on Characteristics of AlGaAs/GaAs Quantum Well Lasers Grown on Si Substrates
- 1 June 1995
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 34 (6R) , 2994
- https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.34.2994
Abstract
We report the influences of dark line defects (DLD's) on characteristics of AlGaAs/GaAs quantum well lasers grown on Si substrates under continuous-wave aging operation. Electroluminescence topography revealed that rapid degradation of an AlGaAs/GaAs laser on Si was caused by the rapid growth of DLD's. The generation of DLD's causes the decrease of internal differential quantum efficiency (η i) due to the increased number of nonradiative recombination centers. It also causes decrease of the differential gain coefficient (β) and slow increase of driving current at the initial slow degradation stage. At the subsequent rapid degradation stage, rapid increase of driving current is caused by the drastic increase of internal loss (α i) and decrease of β due to the growth of the DLD's. It is also found that the DLD growth velocity depends more strongly on the injected current density than on the junction temperature.Keywords
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