Optically pumped lasing of (111) oriented bulk ZnSe grown by seeded physical vapor phase transport (SPVT) technique has been achieved at room temperature under near resonant pumping with the excitation photon energy very close to the fundamental band gap. Laser emission can be seen at a pumping intensity as low as 7 kW/cm2. The lasing mode spacings resulting from the dispersion of the index of refraction for ZnSe in a Fabry–Perot resonator‐like cavity have been observed as well. Our experimental results demonstrate that SPVT ZnSe single crystals have the quality sufficient to develop low‐threshold, high‐power output blue lasers.
REFERENCES
1.
R. A.
Reynolds
, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A
7
, 269
(1989
), and references therein.2.
3.
4.
R. J.
Seymour
, B. J.
Fitzpatrick
, and R. N.
Bhargava
, IEEE J. Quantum Electron.
QE-14
, 462
(1978
).5.
V. P.
Gribkovskii
, V. A.
Zaporozhchenko
, V. A.
Ivanov
, A. V.
Kachinskii
, V. V.
Parashchuk
, and G. P.
Yablonskii
, Sov. J. Quantum Electron.
9
, 1305
(1979
).6.
S.
Colak
, B. J.
Fitzpatrick
, and R. N.
Bhargava
, J. Cryst. Growth
72
, 504
(1985
).7.
J. E.
Potts
, T. L.
Smith
, and H.
Cheng
, Appl. Phys. Lett.
50
, 7
(1987
).8.
K.
Shahzad
, D. J.
Olego
, and D. A.
Cammack
, Phys. Rev. B
39
, 13016
(1989
).9.
I. M.
Catalano
, A.
Cingolani
, M.
Ferrara
, and M.
Lugara
, Solid State Commun.
43
, 371
(1982
).10.
C. A.
Zmudzinski
, Y.
Guan
, and P. S.
Zory
, IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett.
2
, 94
(1990
).11.
P. R.
Newbury
, K.
Shahzad
, and D. A.
Cammack
, Appl. Phys. Lett.
58
, 1065
(1991
).12.
D. A.
Cammack
, R. J.
Dalby
, H. J.
Cornelissen
, and J.
Khurgin
, J. Appl. Phys.
62
, 3071
(1987
).13.
R. B.
Bylsma
, W. M.
Becker
, T. C.
Bonsett
, L. A.
Kolodziejski
, R. L.
Gunshor
, M.
Yamanishi
, and S.
Datta
, Appl. Phys. Lett.
47
, 1039
(1985
).14.
J.
Ding
, H.
Jeon
, A. V.
Nurmikko
, H.
Luo
, N.
Samarth
, and J. K.
Furdyna
, Appl. Phys. Lett.
57
, 2756
(1990
).15.
X. H. Yang, W. Shan, J. Hays, J. J. Song, E. Cantwell, and J. Alridge (unpublished).
16.
E. Cantwell, Technical Report of Eagle Picher Research Lab., 1991 (unpublished).
17.
J. I. Pankove, in Optical Processes in Semiconductors (Dover, New York, 1971), Chap. 7.
18.
H. L.
Cotal
, A. C.
Lewnadowski
, B. G.
Markey
, S. W. S.
Mckeever
, E.
Cantwell
, and J.
Aldridge
, J. Appl. Phys.
67
, 975
(1990
).19.
A.
Taike
, M.
Migita
, and H.
Yamamoto
, Appl. Phys. Lett.
56
, 1989
(1990
).20.
21.
K. Ohkawa (private communication).
22.
T. Yao (private communication).
23.
M.
Migita
, A.
Taike
, and H.
Yamamoto
, J. Appl. Phys.
68
, 880
(1990
).
This content is only available via PDF.
© 1991 American Institute of Physics.
1991
American Institute of Physics
You do not currently have access to this content.
