Laser operation of a heterojunction bipolar light-emitting transistor

G. Walter(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), N. Holonyak(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Meixin Feng(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), R. Chan(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Applied Physics Letters
November 15, 2004
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Abstract

Data are presented demonstrating the laser operation (quasicontinuous, ∼200K) of an InGaP–GaAs–InGaAs heterojunction bipolar light-emitting transistor with AlGaAs confining layers and an InGaAs recombination quantum well incorporated in the p-type base region. Besides the usual spectral narrowing and mode development occurring at laser threshold, the transistor current gain β=ΔIc∕ΔIb in common emitter operation decreases sharply at laser threshold (6.5→2.5,β>1).


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