Two-color quantum dot laser with tunable wavelength gap

Abstract

We report on two-color InAs/InP(100) quantum dot lasers with tunable wavelength gap. Two peaks of lasing emission were observed simultaneously, while the high energy peak undergoes continuous blueshift with the increase in the injection current, and the low energy peak is somewhat fixed. Sophisticated studies of the wavelength gap as a function of the laser power prove that the two-peak lasing and shifting is not caused by the effect of Rabi oscillation. Moreover, comparison of electroluminescence and lasing spectra under different injection currents reveal the blueshift of the high energy peak is most likely related to the state-filling effect. © 2009 American Institute of Physics.