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Superluminescence in Green Emission GaInN/GaN Quantum Well Structures under Pulsed Laser Excitation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Jayantha Senawiratne
Affiliation:
jayanthajs@gmail.com, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Future Chips Constellation and Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, 110 8th street, Troy, NY, NY 12180, United States, 518-276-3899
Stephanie Tomasulo
Affiliation:
tomass@rpi.edu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Troy, NY, 12180, United States
Theeradetch Detchprohm
Affiliation:
detcht@rpi.edu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Future Chips Constellation, Troy, NY, 12180, United States
Mingwei Zhu
Affiliation:
zhum@rpi.edu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Future Chips Constellation, Troy, NY, 12180, United States
Yufeng Li
Affiliation:
liy10@rpi.edu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Future Chips Constellation, Troy, NY, 12180, United States
Wei Zhao
Affiliation:
zhaow2@rpi.edu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Future Chips Constellation, Troy, NY, 12180, United States
Yong Xia
Affiliation:
xiay2@rpi.edu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Future Chips Constellation, Troy, NY, 12180, United States
Zihui Zhang
Affiliation:
zhangz2@rpi.edu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Future Chips Constellation, Troy, NY, 12180, United States
Peter Persans
Affiliation:
persap@rpi.edu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Troy, NY, 12180, United States
Christian Wetzel
Affiliation:
wetzel@rpi.edu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Future Chips Constellation, Troy, NY, 12180, United States
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Abstract

We report nonlinear optical investigation of green emission GaInN/GaN multi-quantum structures grown along c- and m-axes on sapphire and bulk GaN substrates, respectively. Under intense pulsed photo excitation, we observed strong superluminescence near the lasing condition in c-plane grown quantum well structures with full width at half maximum of 6 nm. The superluminescence couples out of the edge of the sample in a mode pattern consistent with gain in a high mode of the waveguide. The wavelength of the superluminescence is 474 nm. The threshold intensity of superluminescence was found to be 156 kW/cm2. Increasing pump intensity leads to a strong photoluminescence blueshift as large as 380 meV in samples grown along the c-axis on sapphire substrate, while under the same excitation conditions, the blue shift for the m-axis grown structure on bulk GaN substrate is less than 10 meV. The large emission blueshift is hereby attributed to the internal piezoelectric field in the c-axis grown structure. We observe a gain value of 20 cm-1 together with internal absorption losses of 2.3 – 6.0 cm-1 for the superluminescent samples.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2008

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