Paper
11 February 2008 Light-current curve of a tunneling-injection quantum dot laser
Dae-Seob Han, Levon V. Asryan
Author Affiliations +
Abstract
The potential for high-power operation of a laser exploiting tunneling-injection of electrons and holes into quantum dots (QDs) from two separate quantum wells (QWs) is studied. An extended theoretical model is developed to account for out-tunneling leakage of carriers from QDs. Even in the presence of out-tunneling from QDs, the parasitic recombination flux outside QDs is shown to remain restricted with increasing injection current; correspondingly, the LCC becomes more and more linear and the slope efficiency closer to unity at high injection currents. The linearity is due to the fact that the current paths connecting the opposite sides of the structure lie entirely within QDs - in view of the threedimensional confinement in QDs, the out-tunneling fluxes of carriers from dots are limited.
© (2008) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Dae-Seob Han and Levon V. Asryan "Light-current curve of a tunneling-injection quantum dot laser", Proc. SPIE 6902, Quantum Dots, Particles, and Nanoclusters V, 69020B (11 February 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.758414
Lens.org Logo
CITATIONS
Cited by 1 scholarly publication.
Advertisement
Advertisement
RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS
Get copyright permission  Get copyright permission on Copyright Marketplace
KEYWORDS
Quantum wells

Electrons

Cladding

Photons

Electron holes

Solids

Internal quantum efficiency

Back to Top