Abstract
It is found that above 10 kbar, the effect of pressure on the threshold current of visible lasers is to increase losses to the X minima in the barriers. Below 10 kbar the threshold current remains relatively constant with pressure. By monitoring the lasing wavelength, the pressure dependence of the direct band gap of ordered GaInP has been measured to be 7 meV/kbar. Considerations of the effect of strain in the active region of a laser suggest that increases in I/sub th/ for tensile strained visible lasers as a function of increasing strain are due to losses from the Gamma minimum to X minima in the well. Similar increases in I/sub th/ observed at high compressive strains can be explained by the reduction in well width, and hence optical confinement factor, which is necessary to maintain the same operating wavelength as the strain is increased.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
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