Behavior of spontaneous emission across threshold in GaAs junction lasers
- 1 August 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 21 (3), 98-100
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1654306
Abstract
The spontaneous emission behavior of a cw stripe‐geometry GaAs laser is examined in detail. Contrary to recently published results, a sharp discontinuity of the spontaneous emission growth occurs when the laser reaches threshold. Above threshold, slow increases in the spontaneous emission are observed, coming mostly from the regions where the lasing light intensity is small. Other discontinuity points were, at higher currents, observed corresponding to the onset of higher‐order modes and second‐order mode locking.Keywords
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