[en] Traditional (in the AlGaAs/GaAs system) and phosphorus-compensated (in the AlGaAs/AlGaPAs/GaAs system) laser heterostructures emitting at a wavelength of 850 nm are grown by MOVPE and studied. Laser diode bars are fabricated and their output characteristics are studied. The method used to grow heterolayers allowed us to control (minimise) mechanical stresses in the AlGaPAs/GaAs laser heterostructure, which made it possible to keep its curvature at the level of the initial curvature of the substrate. It is shown that the use of a compensated AlGaPAs/GaAs heterostructure improves the linear distribution of emitting elements in the near field of laser diode arrays and allows the power - current characteristic to retain its slope at high pump currents owing to a uniform contact of all emitting elements with the heat sink. The radius of curvature of the grown compensated heterostructures turns out to be smaller than that of traditional heterostructures.

[en] We have developed the effective design of semiconductor heterostructures, which allow one to fabricate cw laser diodes emitting in the 750 – 790-nm spectral range. The optimal conditions for fabrication of GaAsP/AlGaInP/GaAs heterostructures by MOCVD have been determined. It is shown that the use of quantum wells with a precisely defined quantity mismatch reduces the threshold current density and increases the external differential efficiency. The results of studies of characteristics of diode laser bars fabricated from these heterostructures are presented. (lasers)

[en] We have fabricated and investigated linear arrays of single laser diodes (LDs) and epitaxially stacked double LDs based on AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures emitting in the 808-nm range. The power - current characteristic of the double-LD bars has a slope of 2.18 W A^-1, which is almost twice that of the single-LD bars (1.16 W A^-1). The voltage drop across the former bars is also larger. At a pump current of 60 A, the output power of 5-mm-long arrays of LDs based on epitaxially stacked double heterostructures is 100 W under quasi-cw pumping, which is a factor of 1.8 above that of the single-LD bars under identical conditions. (lasers)

[en] Two series of AlGaAs/GaAs laser heterostructures have been grown by metal-organic vapour phase epitaxy, and 808-nm laser diode bars fabricated from the heterostructures have been investigated. The heterostructures differed in waveguide thickness and quantum well depth. It is shown that increasing the barrier height for charge carriers in the active region has an advantageous effect on the output parameters of the laser sources in the case of the heterostructures with a narrow symmetric waveguide: the slope of their power – current characteristics increased from 0.9 to 1.05 W A^-1. Thus, the configuration with a narrow waveguide and deep quantum well is better suited for high-power laser diode bars under hindered heat removal conditions. (lasers)

[en] AlGaAs/GaAs double laser heterostructures containing two different active regions have been grown by metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy in a single growth process, and their properties have been studied. A typical slope of their power - current curves is 2.3 W A^-1, which is almost twice that for a laser diode (1.2 W A^-1). We demonstrate lasing of the emitter regions of the dual-wavelength lasers in the range 800 - 815 nm, with a separation between the peaks of ∼7 nm. The observed effect of pump current on the lasing wavelength of the active regions in the dual-wavelength and single lasers indicates that the emitter region farther away from the heat sink is more sensitive to pump current variations. (lasers)

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Abstract—

This paper presents results of a comparative experimental study aimed at producing GaAs/GaInP and GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells (QWs) by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. The photoluminescence signal of the GaAs/GaInP QWs is shown to have a higher intensity (by a factor of 50–100) and, at the same time, a larger width (by a factor of ~2.5) in comparison with the GaAs/AlGaAs QWs. We analyze different approaches to controlling emission spectra of these QWs.

[en] The results of a series of studies concerned with formation of epitaxially integrated InGaAs/AlGaAs and AlGaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures with several emitting regions and with investigation of properties of laser diodes based on the above structures operating in the spectral ranges λ = 800–810, 890–910, and 1040–1060 nm are summarized. It is shown that the suggested approach to integration of individual laser structures by the method of the MOVPE epitaxy operates efficiently in fabrication of laser diodes for a wide spectral range on the basis of various types of heterostructures. This approach made it possible to efficiently increase the output power of the laser diodes practically without variation in their mass-and-dimension characteristics. The main advantages of this approach and its limitations are outlined. Epitaxial integration of two laser heterostructures made it possible to increase the differential quantum efficiency by 1.7–2.0 times, while integration of three laser heterostructures increases the differential quantum efficiency by a factor of 2.5–3.0.