“…Therefore, the superior characteristics expected for AlGaInAs-based devices have generated a renewed interest for a well-known monolithic integration technique, namely selective area growth (SAG) [1][2][3], applied to AlGaInAs materials. In addition to specific difficulties of the SAG technique, it is certainly more complex to predict and control the diffusion variations of three III-elements (AlGaInAs) [4,5] rather than two (GaInAsP) [1,[6][7][8] in the SAG regime. Therefore the SAG technique has been much more investigated for the GaInAsP system than for the AlGaInAs one.…”