{"title":"The differential efficiency of GaInP quantum well lasers","authors":"P. Smowton, P. Blood","doi":"10.1109/LEOS.1996.565240","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Using experimental measurements of spontaneous emission spectra, we have separated the effects that current spreading and Fermi-level pinning have on the temperature dependence of the external differential efficiency of GaInP laser diodes. We conclude that a major factor contributing to the decrease of external differential efficiency with increasing temperature is a decrease in injection efficiency due to incomplete Fermi level pinning at threshold in the barrier regions alongside the well, and an increase in barrier recombination as the temperature increases.","PeriodicalId":332726,"journal":{"name":"Conference Proceedings LEOS'96 9th Annual Meeting IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1996-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Conference Proceedings LEOS'96 9th Annual Meeting IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOS.1996.565240","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Using experimental measurements of spontaneous emission spectra, we have separated the effects that current spreading and Fermi-level pinning have on the temperature dependence of the external differential efficiency of GaInP laser diodes. We conclude that a major factor contributing to the decrease of external differential efficiency with increasing temperature is a decrease in injection efficiency due to incomplete Fermi level pinning at threshold in the barrier regions alongside the well, and an increase in barrier recombination as the temperature increases.