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Both compressive and tensile strained quantum-well lasers are shown to be intrinsically capable of achieving better temperature performance than that of unstrained quantum-well lasers.","Second, high-voltage electron-beam-induced-current (HV-EBIC) imaging is used to study the degradation of commercial 0.98 $\\mu$m strained quantum-well lasers. The reliability of 0.98 $\\mu$m InGaAs/AlGaAs strained quantum-well lasers is found to be limited by the developments of facet defects, caused by the nonradiative surface recombination in the cladding layers at the laser facet.","Third, the high-temperature modulation dynamics of 1.3 $\\mu$m AlInGaAs/AlInGaAs strained quantum-well lasers with various barrier heights are investigated. Differential gains and nonlinear gain factors are independently measured using the parasitic-free optical modulation technique. It is concluded that a sufficient barrier height is necessary to reduce the temperature sensitivity of the differential gain, which ensures better high-speed performance at high temperature.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:55:38Z (GMT). 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