Abstract

Separate-confinement heterostructure lasers with thin active regions are analyzed. For four different interior-cladding-region refractive-index spatial variations, i.e., step, triangular, parabolic, and inverted parabolic, waveguide modes are calculated and thresholds are compared. Based on optical considerations alone, the step-index profile has the lowest threshold; however, for optimum cladding thicknesses the differences are not great.

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