Very low loss extended cavity GaAs/AlGaAs lasersmade by impurity-free vacancy diffusion

Abstract
Very low loss extended cavity lasers have heen fabricated using the impurity-free vacancy diffusion technique. The average loss, obtained from the slope of measured loss as a function of the extended cavity length, was 10 dB/cm for extended cavities annealed at 900 °C for 30s. The lowest loss of 3.6 dB/cm was obtained from a device annealed at 950 °C for 30s.