Realization of temperature-insensitive energy band-gap based on nanowire-well quantum systems for thermally frequency-stable laser diodes

Abstract

The realization of high-power and thermally frequency-stable laser diodes is always highly desirable and also a difficulty in the areas of laser diodes and their applications. One of the major factors causing a shift in lasing frequency is the temperature dependence of the band-gap of the active medium, which leads to the photon energy changing. In this paper, we propose a novel approach and mechanism to overcome the variation in band-gap with temperature. This is the utilization of a nanowire constraint on the well in a self-organized InGaAs nanowire-well-bound quantum system. By binding relatively heat-stable nanowires directly to the well in this system, the thermal change in the energy-band of the hybrid quantum system is effectively restricted. As a result, the band-gap variations are limited to <0.01 meV K−1 in a temperature range of 286–339 K for unpolarized emissions, and <0.02 meV K−1 in a temperature range of 288–313 K for transverse-electric polarized emissions. The mechanism of heat-stable band-gap formation in this hybrid quantum system is analyzed in detail. This achievement is of a great significance in some advanced fields, such as atomic clocks in quantum sensing systems and optical communications.

Graphical abstract: Realization of temperature-insensitive energy band-gap based on nanowire-well quantum systems for thermally frequency-stable laser diodes

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
27 Nov 2023
Accepted
28 Mar 2024
First published
29 Mar 2024

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article

Realization of temperature-insensitive energy band-gap based on nanowire-well quantum systems for thermally frequency-stable laser diodes

Y. Wang, H. Tai, R. Duan, M. Zheng, Y. Shi, J. Zhang, X. Zhang, Y. Ning and J. Wu, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D3TC04371A

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