Liu, Z;
Hantschmann, C;
Tang, M;
Lu, Y;
Park, J-S;
Liao, M;
Pan, S;
... Liu, H; + view all
(2019)
Origin of defect tolerance in InAs/GaAs quantum dot lasers grown on silicon.
Journal of Lightwave Technology
10.1109/jlt.2019.2925598.
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Abstract
High-performance III-V quantum-dot lasers monolithically grown on Si substrates have been demonstrated as a promising solution to realise Si-based laser sources with very low threshold current density, high output power and long lifetime, even with relatively high density of defects due to the material dissimilarities between III-Vs and Si. On the other hand, although conventional III-V quantum-well lasers grown on Si have been demonstrated after great efforts worldwide for more than 40 years, their practicality is still a great challenge because of their very high threshold current density and very short lifetime. However, the physical mechanisms behind the superior performance of silicon-based III-V quantum-dot lasers remain unclear. In this paper, we directly compare the performance of a quantum-well and a quantum-dot laser monolithically grown on on-axis Si (001) substrates, both experimentally and theoretically, under the impact of the same density of threading dislocations. A quantum-dot laser grown on a Si substrate with a high operating temperature (105 °C) has been demonstrated with a low threshold current density of 173 A/cm 2 and a high single facet output power >100 mW at room temperature, while there is no lasing operation for the quantum-well device at room temperature even at high injection levels. By using a rate equation travelling-wave model, the quantum-dot laser's superior performance compared with its quantum well-based counterpart on Si is theoretically explained in terms of the unique properties of quantum dots, i.e., efficient carrier capture and high thermal energy barriers preventing the carriers from migrating into defect states.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Origin of defect tolerance in InAs/GaAs quantum dot lasers grown on silicon |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/jlt.2019.2925598 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1109/jlt.2019.2925598 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. For more information, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10077271 |
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