Investigation of long wavelength green InGaN lasers on c‐plane GaN up to 529 nm continuous wave operation

We present analysis of the experimentally determined gain coefficients g0 for green InGaN lasers with pulsed wavelengths from 495 to 526 nm. Variable facet coating as well as variable cavity length method are used to deduce the dependency of g0 on wavelength. From the experimental data we found that better laser performance at shorter wavelengths correlates with higher material gain. Therefore, lasers at 504 nm reach wall plug efficiencies (WPE) up to 5.3% at 50 mW cw output power, while lasers with 525 and 529 nm show a WPE up to 3 and 2.3%, respectively. The WPE for longer wavelengths is limited due to thermal rollover in cw operation.