Electrical tuning of the oscillator strength in type II InAs/GaInSb quantum wells for active region of passively mode-locked interband cascade lasers

Mateusz Dyksik; Marcin Motyka; Marcin Kurka; Krzysztof Ryczko; Jan Misiewicz; Anne Schade; Martin Kamp; Sven Höfling; Grzegorz Sęk

doi:10.7567/JJAP.56.110301

Electrical tuning of the oscillator strength in type II InAs/GaInSb quantum wells for active region of passively mode-locked interband cascade lasers

Mateusz Dyksik, Marcin Motyka, Marcin Kurka, Krzysztof Ryczko, Jan Misiewicz, Anne Schade, Martin Kamp, Sven Höfling, Grzegorz Sęk

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Two designs of active region for an interband cascade laser, based on double or triple GaInSb/InAs type II quantum wells (QWs), were compared with respect to passive mode-locked operation in the mid-infrared range around 4 µm. The layer structure and electron and hole wavefunctions under external electric field were engineered to allow controlling the optical transition oscillator strength and the resulting lifetimes. As a result, the investigated structures can mimic absorber-like and gain-like sections of a mode-locked device when properly polarized with opposite bias. A significantly larger oscillator strength tuning range for triple QWs was experimentally verified by Fourier-transform photoreflectance.

Original language	English
Article number	110301
Number of pages	4
Journal	Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
Volume	56
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7567/JJAP.56.110301
Publication status	Published - 29 Sept 2017

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Electrical tuning of the oscillator strength in type II InAs/GaInSb quantum wells for active region of passively mode-locked interband cascade lasers

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