Ma. Emanuel et al., HIGH-EFFICIENCY ALGAAS-BASED LASER-DIODE AT 808 NM WITH LARGE TRANSVERSE SPOT SIZE, IEEE photonics technology letters, 8(10), 1996, pp. 1291-1293
Lasers diodes having a large transverse spot size have been fabricated
from a modified graded index separate confinement heterostructure wit
h an active region consisting of two 70 Angstrom Al0.15In0.10Ga0.75As
strained quantum wells, The catastrophic optical damage threshold for
these large transverse mode devices is increased by more than two time
s over that of conventional devices while still maintaining good devic
e performance.