CW operation of high-power blue laser diodes with polished facets on semi-polar ( 20 2 ¯ 1 ¯ ) GaN substrates

Type
Article

Authors
Pourhashemi, A.
Farrell, R.M.
Cohen, D.A.
Becerra, D.L.
DenBaars, S. P.
Nakamura, S.

Online Publication Date
2016-10-11

Print Publication Date
2016-11-24

Date
2016-10-11

Abstract
Continuous wave (CW) operation of high-power blue laser diodes (LDs) with polished facets on semi-polar (202̅1̅) gallium nitride (GaN) substrates is demonstrated. Ridge waveguide LDs were fabricated using indium GaN waveguiding layers and GaN cladding layers. At a lasing wavelength of 452 nm, the peak two-facet CW output power from an LD with uncoated facets was 1.71 W at a current of 3 A, corresponding to an optical power density of 32.04 MW/cm2 on each facet. The dependence of output power on current did not change with repeated CW measurements, indicating that the polished facets did not degrade under high-power CW operation. These results show that polished facets are a viable alternative to cleaved or etched facets for high-power CW semi-polar LDs.

Citation
Pourhashemi A, Farrell RM, Cohen DA, Becerra DL, DenBaars SP, et al. (2016) CW operation of high-power blue laser diodes with polished facets on semi-polar ( 20 2 ¯ 1 ¯ ) GaN substrates . Electronics Letters 52: 2003–2005. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/el.2016.3055.

Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center (SSLEEC) and the KACST-KAUST-UCSB Solid State Lighting Program (SSLP). A portion of this work was done in the UCSB nanofabrication facility, part of the NSF NNIN network (ECS-0335765), as well as the UCSB MRL, which is supported by the NSF MRSEC programme (DMR-1121053).

Publisher
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

Journal
Electronics Letters

DOI
10.1049/el.2016.3055

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