Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v. 6352, Article no. 63521J
Abstract
We investigated the dependency of waveguide structures on ripples of far-field patterns in 405nm GaN-based laser diodes theoretically and experimentally. As the n-type cladding layer thickness decreases, the passive waveguide modes strongly interact with an active layer mode. This suggests that the thicknesses of n-AlGaN/GaN superlattice clad and n-GaN waveguide layers have significant influences on FFP ripples. We successfully obtained very smooth far-field patterns perpendicular to the junction plane by optimizing both n-AlGaN/GaN clad layer thickness and n-GaN waveguide layer thickness.