Determination of active-region leakage currents in ridge-waveguide strained-layer quantum-well lasers by varying the ridge width

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 512-517

  Letal, G J ^a   Simmons, J G ^a   Evans, J D ^b   Li, G P ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Leakage currents; Quantum well lasers; Ridge waveguides; Semiconductor device modeling; Semiconductor lasers

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CURRENT DENSITY; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

LATERAL CURRENT SPREADING; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0032028638     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.661460     Document Type: Article

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