“…To keep the gain region compact allowing the vertical mode selection [3,6,11], on the one hand, and avoiding defect formation in stacked InGaAs QWs [17], on the other hand, strain compensation by GaAsP barriers is usually applied. It was noted, however, that 1060 nm laser diodes with GaAsP strain compensation barriers demonstrate higher waveguide losses and thus lower wall-plug efficiencies as compared to the lasers with stacked QWs grown without strain compensation [18].…”