Optically pumped laser oscillation at 3.82 μm from InAs1−xSbx grown by molecular beam epitaxy on GaSb

Abstract
Molecular beam epitaxy has been used to grow InAs1−xSbx active layers on GaSb substrates. Lattice matches of better than 103 were obtained with x≂0.09. Index waveguiding of the relatively low refractive index InAs1−xSbx is obtained by using an adjacent GaSb guiding layer and a lower refractive index Al0.5Ga0.5Sb cladding layer. Optically pumped laser emission at 3.82 μm has been observed from 77 to 135 K with a T0=15.9 K.