Room-temperature CW operation of red vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers grown by solid-source molecular beam epitaxy

摘要

The authors present the first report of MBE-grown AlGaInP vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers. The lasers exhibit continuous wave operation at 690 nm with a maximum output power of 0.56 mW. With a 10 /spl mu/m optical aperture the threshold current is only 1.3 mA, and CW lasing is achieved up to 45/spl deg/C.