Improvement of temperature stability in columnar quantum dots by introducing side barriers with larger bandgap energy for semiconductor optical amplifiers

Nami Yasuoka; Shigekazu Okumura; Hiroji Ebe; Yu Tanaka; Mutsuri Ekawa; Yoshiaki Nakata; Mitsuru Sugawara; Yasuhiko Arakawa

doi:10.1117/12.907958

23 February 2012 Improvement of temperature stability in columnar quantum dots by introducing side barriers with larger bandgap energy for semiconductor optical amplifiers

Nami Yasuoka, Shigekazu Okumura, Hiroji Ebe, Yu Tanaka, Mutsuri Ekawa, Yoshiaki Nakata, Mitsuru Sugawara, Yasuhiko Arakawa

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Proceedings Volume 8271, Quantum Dots and Nanostructures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Modeling IX; 82710S (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.907958
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We have investigated the temperature dependence of InAs columnar quantum dots (CQDs) surrounded by InGaAsP barriers with different bandgap energies toward high-temperature performance for semiconductor optical amplifiers. It was found that larger bandgap energy in InGaAsP side barriers enabled to increase the quasi-Fermi level (F) separation between the conduction and valence bands from theory. We have fabricated two types of CQD-SOAs with different side barrier energies and compared temperature characteristics. Decrease in the material gains for CQD with a larger side barrier bandgap was suppressed by 20% with increasing temperature from 25 °C to 85 °C.

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Nami Yasuoka, Shigekazu Okumura, Hiroji Ebe, Yu Tanaka, Mutsuri Ekawa, Yoshiaki Nakata, Mitsuru Sugawara, and Yasuhiko Arakawa "Improvement of temperature stability in columnar quantum dots by introducing side barriers with larger bandgap energy for semiconductor optical amplifiers", Proc. SPIE 8271, Quantum Dots and Nanostructures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Modeling IX, 82710S (23 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.907958

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