高功率AlGaAs/GaAs单量子阱远结激光器及其老化特性

为了提高器件的可靠性和使用寿命,设计并研制了一种将p-n结和有源层分开的高功率AlGaAs／GaAs单量子阱远异质结(SQW-RJH)激光器,发射波长为808nm,腔长900μm,条宽100μm,其外延结构与通常的808nm AlGaAs／GaAs单量子阱半导体激光器的结构不同,在p-n结和有源区间多了一层p型AlGaAs层,其厚度约为0．1μm。为减小衬底表面位错对外延层质量的影响,在n^ -GaAs衬底和n-Al0．5Ga0．5As下包层间加一层n^ -GaAs缓冲层。对器件进行了电导数测试及恒流电老化实验。与常规AlGaAs／GaAs大功率半导体激光器相比,远结大功率半导体激光器具有阈值电流Ith偏大、导通电压Vth偏高的直流特性。3000h的恒流电老化结果表明,器件在老化初期表现出阈值电流随老化时间缓慢下降,输出功率随老化时间缓慢上升的远结特性。     

半导体微结构物理效应及其应用讲座第三讲半导体的激子效应及其在光电子器件中的应用

人们对半导体中的电子空穴对在库仑互作用下形成的激子态及其有关的物理性质进行了深入研究.激子效应对半导体中的光吸收、发光、激射和光学非线性作用等物理过程具有重要影响,并在半导体光电子器件的研究和开发中得到了重要的应用.与半导体体材料相比,在量子化的低维电子结构中,激子的束缚能要大得多,激子效应增强,而且在较高温度或在电场作用下更稳定.这对制作利用激子效应的光电子器件非常有利.近年来量子阱、量子点等低维结构研究获得飞速的进展,已大大促进了激子效应在新型半导体光源和半导体非线性光电子器件领域的应用.     

ZnSe－ZnS量子阱的光学非线性

半导体量子阱及超晶格材料具有室温激子效应以及强的光学非线性从而得到人们广泛的重视。利用半导体量子阱和超晶格可以制备出高速度、低闭值、小尺寸及室温工作的半导体激光器、光双稳器件等一系列光电子器件.     

第三讲 半导体的激子效应及其在光电子器件中的应用

人们对半导体中的电子空穴对在库仑互作用下形成的激子态及其有关的物理性质进行了深入研究．激子效应对半导体中的光吸收、发光、激射和光学非线性作用等物理过程具有重要影响，并在半导体光电子器件的研究和开发中得到了重要的应用．与半导体体材料相比，在量子化的低维电子结构中，激子的束缚能要大得多，激子效应增强，而且在较高温度或在电场作用下更稳定．这对制作利用激子效应的光电子器件非常有利．近年来量子阱、量子点等低维结构研究获得飞速的进展，已大大促进了激子效应在新型半导体光源和半导体非线性光电子器件领域的应用．     

电子-声子相互作用对正切平方量子阱中光吸收系数的影响

从理论上研究了电子-声子相互作用对正切平方量子阱中光吸收系数的影响,首先利用微扰论方法求出考虑极化子效应时正切平方量子阱的波函数和能级,然后利用密度矩阵算符理论和迭代法得到光吸收系数的解析表达式,最后以典型的GaAs/AlGaAs正切平方量子阱为例进行数值计算。结果表明,极化子效应对线性吸收系数、三阶非线性吸收系数和总吸收系数都有显著的影响,在相同光强的情况下极化子效应使光饱和吸收现象更加明显;考虑电声相互作用后,总吸收系数的改变量随着势阱宽度b的减小和势阱深度V0的增加而增大。     

基于电子自旋弛豫全光开关中的瞬态特性

设计了基于电子自旋弛豫的透射式全光开关模犁.该光开关具有开关时间短、结构简单,光学非线性强等特点.研究在右旋圆偏振光抽运下 GaAs/AlGaAs半导体多量子阱(MQWs)中以相空间填充(PSF)和库仑屏蔽(CS)为主要因素导致的激子吸收饱和行为,计算与抽运光同向(探测光与抽运光的圆偏振方向相同)和反向(探测光与抽运光的圆偏振方向相反)的圆偏振探测光吸收系数的变化,得到两种圆偏振光差分透射率改变量随延迟时间的变化.实验采用飞秒抽运-探测技术,获得了室温下GaAs/AlGaAs多量子阱同向圆偏振探测光的透射曲线,观察到了明显的饱和吸收现象,与数值模拟的结果相符.     

我国第一支量子阱红外探测器

量子阱红外探测器是一种新型红外探测器.它是利用新型半导体超晶格量子阱材料的子能带光跃迁的红外吸收特性制成的.它具有响应快、灵敏度高、可变波长、可变带宽等特点,并有实现大面积集成和制作大面积二维象素列阵的实际可能性,将成为新一代红外探测器件,在未来五到十年内可能引起红外物理、红外光电子学及其应用领域的变革.两年前,美国贝尔实验室已研制出可与历史悠久的HgCdTe红外探测器性能相比较的GaAs/AlGaAs量子阱探测器. 中国科学院物理研究所从1989年开始,就在器件材料生长、器件物理、器件工艺及器件的性能测试等方面,着手进行…     

GaAs/AlGaAs量子点阵的制备及其荧光特性

采用电子束曝光和反应离子刻蚀的工艺,将GaAs/AlGaAs量子阱外延材料制成量子点阵,其光荧光谱显示出蓝移,并且蓝移量随着量子点直径尺寸的减少而增大。     

GaAs/AlGaAs多量子阱光生电压谱研究

在18—300K温度范围内,研究了用半绝缘体GaAs作为衬底的GaAs/AlGaAs多量子阱的光生电压谱.共观测到11H,11L,22H,22L,33H,33L,13H和31H等多种允许和禁戒的激子吸收峰.低温下的光生电压谱清晰地反映了多量子阱台阶式的状态密度分布.认为光生电压谱也可以作为一种判断多量子阱和超晶格外延生长质量的方法.还讨论了光生电压随温度的变化和光生电压效应的机理. 关键词：     

ZnSe-CdZnse多量子阱光双稳器件的研制

本文采用电化学选择性腐蚀工艺对GaAs衬底蚀孔,在其上获得了大面积具有光滑表面的Ⅱ-Ⅵ族半导体多量子阱外延膜.通过在其表面蒸镀反射膜,制成了高质量的F-P腔,制备出ZnSe-CdZnSe多量子阱F-P腔光双稳器件.     

Binding energies of donor impurities in modulation-doped double quantum wells under an electric field

In this study, we have investigated theoretically the binding energies of shallow donor impurities in modulation-doped GaAs/Al_0.33Ga_0.67As double quantum wells (DQWs) under an electric field which is applied along the growth direction for different doping concentrations as a function of the impurity position. The electronic structure of modulation-doped DQWs under an electric field has been investigated by using a self-consistent calculation in the effective-mass approximation. The results obtained show that the carrier density and the depth of the quantum wells in semiconductors may be tuned by changing the doping concentration, the electric field and the structure parameters such as the well and barrier widths. This tunability gives a possibility of use in many electronic and optical devices.     

The polarization sensitivity of optical absorption in tensile strained GaAs/InAlAs double quantum wells

The electric field dependence of the polarization sensitivity of optical absorption in tensile-strained GaAs/InAlAs double quantum wells (DQWs) was investigated theoretically. The coupling effects and electric-field-induced change of eigenstates in various DQW structures were analysed within the framework of the Bastard envelope function approximation using the transfer matrix method (TMM). The absorption coefficient was calculated with excitonic effects included. The simulation results show that it is possible to change the polarization characteristics in the DQW structures by adjusting the applied electric field.     

Luminescence of excitons in slightly asymmetric double quantum wells

We report the first studies of exciton luminescence spectra from asymmetric double quantum wells (DQWs) of very similar width. The DQWs were of GaAs/AlGaAs and the differences in widths of the coupled wells were one or two monolayers. The coupled direct and indirect exciton states anticross with a resonance splitting of 1.33 meV. An additional luminescence line appearing at low temperatures is identified as a localized indirect exciton. Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 39, 735–739 (April 1997)     

Absorption and photoluminescence studies of the temperature dependence of exciton life time in lattice-matched and strained quantum well systems

We present systematic studies of the temperature dependence of linewidths and lifetimes of excitonic transitions in quantum wells grown by molecular beam epitaxy using both photoluminescence(PL) and optical absorption. The temperature ranged from 6K to room temperature. Samples under investigation were lattice-matched GaAs/AlGaAs and InGaAs/InAlAs, and strained InGaAs/GaAs and InGaAs/AlGaAs quantum wellssystems. In addition, the effects of well-size variations in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells were measured and analyzed. In all cases we were able to observe the excitonic transitions up to room temperature. By a careful fitting of the experimental data we separated the exciton transitions from band-to-band transitions. By deconvoluting the excitonic transitions we obtained the homogeneous and inhomogeneous linewidths. The homogeneous linewidths were used to calculate the exciton lifetimes as a function of temperature using the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. We found the lifetime decreases significantly with temperature and increases with increasing well size. These results are interpreted in terms of the exciton-phonon interaction and are expected to be very useful for the design of semiconductor optical devices operating at different temperatures.     

Optical detection of an electric field in a GaAs/AlGaAs <Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis>-<Emphasis Type="Italic">i</Emphasis>-<Emphasis Type="Italic">n</Emphasis> heterostructure with double quantum wells

Processes occurring when a static transverse electric field is applied to a GaAs/AlGaAs n-i-n heterostructure with single quantum wells and asymmetric tunnel-coupled double quantum wells have been investigated by optical methods. The difference between the energies of exciton transitions for quantum wells of different widths makes it possible to attribute the observed photoluminescence peaks to particular pairs of wells or particular single quantum wells. The local electric field for each quantum well has been determined in terms of the Stark shift and splitting of exciton lines in a wide range of external voltage. A qualitative model has been proposed to explain the nonmonotonic distribution of the electric field over the depth of the heterostructure.     

Electro-optical phenomena accompanying electron and hole heating in superlattices and quantum wells GaAs/AlGaAs and Ge/GeSi

New electro-optical phenomena in quantum-well structures, i.e. modulation of the light absorption and birefringence due to carrier heating in a strong electric field, have been investigated. The effects have revealed different features in the three types of structures under investigation, namely: (1) well-dopedn-type GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum wells, (2) barrier-dopedn-type GaAs/AlGaAs superlattices and (3) barrier-dopedp-type Ge/GeSi multiple quantum wells. Possible mechanisms of the phenomena have been discussed.     

Ultrafast all optical modulation based on intersubband transition in semiconductor quantum wells

Ultrafast modulation of interband-resonant light by intersubband-resonant light in n-doped GaAs/AlGaAs and GaN/AlGaN quantum wells was investigated by femtosecond pump-probe technique. A planar-type AlGaAs/GaAs modulation device shows a modulation speed of ～1 ps at room temperature. The observed modulation efficiency indicates that 99% modulation can be achieved with a control pulse energy of ～1 pJ when a waveguide-type device structure is utilized. The feasibility of the all-optical modulation in GaN/AlGaN quantum wells is also investigated. The intersubband carrier relaxation time, which mainly determines the modulation speed, is measured and is found to be extremely fast (130–170 fs). The results indicate that the optical modulation at a bit rate of over 1 Tb/s will be possible by utilizing the intersubband transition in GaN/AlGaN quantum wells. The modulation efficiency in GaN/AlGaN quantum wells is also discussed in comparison with that in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells.     

Absorption and emission of terahertz radiation in doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells

Spontaneous emission of terahertz radiation from structures with GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells in a longitudinal magnetic field has been studied. It is shown that some bands in the emission spectrum can be related to radiative electron transitions between resonant and localized impurity states, as well as to the transitions with participation of subband states. The temperature dependence of the equilibrium intraband absorption of terahertz radiation and its modulation in a longitudinal electric field in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells has been investigated.     

Linear and nonlinear intersubband optical absorption in symmetric double semi-parabolic quantum wells

The linear and the nonlinear intersubband optical absorption in the symmetric double semi-parabolic quantum wells are investigated for typical GaAs/AlxGa1−xAs. Energy eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of an electron confined in finite potential double quantum wells are calculated by numerical methods from Schrödinger equation. Optical properties are obtained using the compact density matrix approach. In this work, the effects of the barrier width, the well width and the incident optical intensity on the optical properties of the symmetric double semi-parabolic quantum wells are investigated. Our results show that not only optical incident intensity but also structure parameters such as the barrier and the well width really affect the optical characteristics of these structures.     

Improvement in intersubband optical absorption and the effects of device parameter variations in quantum wells with an applied electric field

The intersubband optical absorption in symmetric and asymmetric, single and coupled, double GaAs/ Ga_{1 − x}Al_xAs quantum wells is calculated. The results have been obtained in the presence of a uniform electric field as a function of the potential symmetry, size of the quantum well, and coupling parameter of the wells. In coupled double quantum wells we obtain a large Stark effect that can be used to fabricate tuneable photodetectors. We show that the effect of an applied electric field on the intersubband optical absorption is similar to changes in the dimensions of the structure. This behaviour in the intersubband optical absorption for different wells and barrier geometries can be used to study these systems in regions of interest, without the need for the growth of many different samples.