Optical resonance modes have been observed in optically pumped microdisk ca
vities fabricated from 80 Angstrom /50 Angstrom InGaAs/InGaAsP multiple qua
ntum wells structures grown by gas-source molecular beam epitaxy. We have a
chieved optically pumped InGaAs/InGaAsP multiquantum Wells microdisk lasers
at a pump power threshold of P-th = 150 muW at pump wavelength lambda = 51
4.5 nm, which was measured for a 10 mum-diameter disk with lasing emission
wavelength near lambda = 1.6 mum. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights
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