Broad-areal electrical injection, interband mid-infrared lasers emitting be
tween 3.2 and 4.7 mu m have been grown by low-pressure metal organic chemic
al vapor deposition. A InAsSbP based double heterostructure laser emitting
at 3.2 mu m is reported to produce 450 mW in continuous mode operation. Fur
thermore, the InAsSb and InAsP alloys have been used for the growth of stra
ined-layer superlattice lasers emitting above 4.0 mu m. These lasers demons
trate threshold current densities as low as 100 A cm(-1) and output powers
up to 546 mW. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.