Title :
Design of semiconductor laser with current-induced cooling
Author :
Dogonkin, E.B. ; Zegrya, G.G.
Author_Institution :
A.F. Ioffe Physicotech. Inst., Acad. of Sci., St. Petersburg, Russia
fDate :
10/25/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A novel design of semiconductor lasers and photodiodes with cooling by injection current is proposed. Carriers are injected into the active region via tunnelling with absorption of optical phonons. An expression for the optimal emitter lengths in a current-cooled system is obtained
Keywords :
cooling; current density; electron-phonon interactions; photodiodes; quantum well lasers; tunnelling; QW laser structure; active region temperature; carrier injection; current-induced cooling; enhanced temperature stability; injection current cooling; negative feedback; optical phonon absorption; optimal emitter lengths; phonon-assisted carrier tunnelling; photodiodes; semiconductor laser design; tunnelling;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20010916
