Visible spectrum (645 nm) transverse electric field laser operation of InP quantum dots coupled to tensile strained In_0.46Ga_0.54P quantum wells

Data are presented that demonstrate the continuous wave room-temperature transverse-electric field (TE) visible-spectrum (645 nm) heterostructure laser operation of single-layer compressively strained 3.75 monolayer equivalent InP quantum dots (QDs) coupled to 60 Å wide tensile-strained In_0.46Ga_0.54P quantum wells (QWs). The simple stripe geometry (200 μm×4 μm) InP QD+InGaP QW heterostructure laser is capable of high performance despite the coupling of two competing recombination systems. The InP QD+InGaP QW laser exhibits low threshold (∼31 mA), high quantum efficiency (72%, ∼1.38 mW/mA), a relatively high characteristic temperature T₀ of 69 K, and a shift in wavelength at temperature of 0.19 nm/°C. © 2004 American Institute of Physics.