Graded tensile-strained bulk InGaAs/InP superluminescent diode with very wide emission spectrum

A kind of novel broad-band superluminescent diodes (SLDs) using graded tensile-strained bulk InGaAs is developed. The graded tensile-strained bulk InGaAs is obtained by changing only group-Ⅲ trimethylgallium source flow during low-pressure metal organic vapor-phase epitaxy. At the injection current of 200mA, the fabricated SLDs with such structure demonstrate full-width at half-maximum spectral width of 106 nm and the output light power of 13.6 mW, respectively.