Low linewidth enhancement factor and chirp and suppressed filamentation in tunnel injection In0.4Ga0.6As self-assembled quantum dot lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5361, Issue , 2004, Pages 29-34

  Fathpour, S ^a   Bhattacharya, P ^a   Ghosh, Siddhartha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Chirp; Filamentation; Linewidth enhancement factor; Quantum dot; Semiconductor laser; Tunnel injection

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRONS; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; METALLIZING; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

CHIRP; FILAMENTATION; LINEWIDTH ENHANCEMENT FACTORS; SEPARATE CONFINEMENT HETEROSTRUCTURE (SCH);

INDIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 3543150072     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.537972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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