High‐power and high‐speed 1.3 μm V‐grooved inner‐stripe lasers with new semi‐insulating current confinement structures on p‐InP substrates

A significant improvement in the maximum output power of a 1.3 μm GaInAsP/InP laser with a semi‐insulating current confinement structure is reported. The improvement has been achieved by interposing an n‐type InP layer between a p‐InP substrate and an Fe‐doped InP layer. A maximum cw output power of 180 mW and a modulation bandwidth of 8.5 GHz have been obtained.