The Semiconductor Laser Laboratory in the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was established for research and development of III-V semiconductor lasers and optical devices grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD).

    The students and staff of the Semiconductor Laser Laboratory have built and are operating several fully-automated MOCVD reactors and are involved in the study of optical processes in various structures such as quantum well heterostructures, superlattices, low threshold single mode lasers, high power index guided laser arrays, and self-assembled quantum dots. They have demonstrated reliable low threshold index guided lasers, integrable distributed feedback lasers, and high power laser arrays from lattice-mismatched strain-accommodated InGaAs-GaAs heterostructures.

    Present research interests include the development of integrated optoelectronic devices by selective area epitaxy, the growth of reduced self-assembled nanostructures, such as quantum wires and dots, and the growth of wide band-gap visible wavelength materials.