Marry LED and LD virtues
Speckle-free + droop free + broad spectrum
A good light source for SSL+VLC
Blue SLD developed at KAUST Photonics with integrated absorber design
SLD shows > 800 MHz modulation bandwidth with optical power of > 10 mW, enabling a data rate of 1.3 Gbps using OOK modulation scheme.
Publications
High-brightness semipolar (2021) blue InGaN/GaN superluminescent diodes for droop-free solid-state lighting and visible-light communications
Chao Shen, Tien Khee Ng, John T. Leonard, Arash Pourhashemi, Shuji Nakamura, Steven P. DenBaars, James S. Speck, Ahmed Y. Alyamani, Munir M. El-desouki, and Boon S. Ooi
Optics Letters, 41(11), 2608-2611 (2016)
High-speed 405-nm superluminescent diode (SLD) with 807-MHz modulation bandwidth
Chao Shen, Changmin Lee, Tien Khee Ng, Shuji Nakamura, James S. Speck, Steven P. DenBaars, Ahmed Y. Alyamani, Munir M. El-Desouki, and Boon S. Ooi
Optics Express, 24(18), 20281-20286 (2016)