Ge. Kohnke et Gw. Wicks, 2ND QUANTIZED STATE LASING AND GAIN SPECTRA MEASUREMENTS IN N-TYPE MODULATION-DOPED GAAS-ALGAAS QUANTUM-WELL LASERS, IEEE journal of quantum electronics, 31(11), 1995, pp. 1941-1946
The emission characteristics of n-type modulation doped GaAs-AlGaAs qu
antum-well lasers are studied for constant doping density and stepped
doping density laser cores, Constant doping density cores are found to
have a shift to shorter wavelength with increasing doping density but
suffer from a corresponding large increase in threshold current densi
ty, Stepped doping density cores exhibit clear wavelength shifting fro
m the first to second quantized state transitions with increased dopin
g near the quantum well while maintaining low threshold current densit
ies, Threshold current densities of 440 A/cm(2) are measured for secon
d quantized state lasing in stepped core lasers, Gain spectra are meas
ured for the stepped doping density core devices and modulation doping
is shown to improve the gain bandwidth by 50% over undoped devices.