Impurity-induced layer-disordered buried heterostructure AlxGa1−xAs-GaAs quantum well edge-injection laser array

Abstract
A laser array is described that makes use of edge injection into two sides (two ‘‘edges’’) of a stack of three AlxGa1−xAs‐GaAs multiple quantum well active regions. The edge‐injection array is realized by impurity‐induced layer disordering, which forms a higher gap Si‐doped n‐type emitter that edge injects electrons into either side of a stack of three lower gap multiple quantum well p‐type active regions. The far‐field beam divergence in the vertical direction (θ) of the array diode is reduced from 45° to 15° as determined by the laser operation, for comparison, of one of the quantum well active regions (oxide‐defined stripe geometry diode).