摘要:
The present invention intends to provide a surface-emitting laser light source using a two-dimensional photonic crystal in which the efficiency of extracting light in a direction perpendicular to the surface is high. In a laser light source provided with a two-dimensional photonic crystal layer 24 created from a plate-shaped matrix body in which a large number of holes 25 are periodically arranged and an active layer 23 arranged on one side of the two-dimensional photonic crystal layer 24, the holes 25 are created to be columnar with a predetermined cross-sectional shape such as a circular shape, and the main axis of each of the columnar holes is tilted to a surface of the matrix body. When provided with this two-dimensional photonic crystal layer 24, the surface-emitting laser source using a two-dimensional photonic crystal has a Q ⊥ value (i.e. a Q value in a direction perpendicular to the surface) of several thousands, which is suitable for an oscillation of laser light, and the efficiency of extracting light is high in the direction perpendicular to the surface.
摘要:
A two-dimensional photonic crystal surface emitting laser light source according to the present invention includes a two-dimensional photonic crystal made of a plate-shaped body material provided with a periodic arrangement of identically-shaped holes 242A and an active layer provided on one side of the two-dimensional photonic crystal. The hole 242A is not located on a first half-line 251 extending from the gravity center G1 of the hole in a direction within the plane of the two-dimensional photonic crystal, while the hole 242A is located at least on a portion of a second half-line 252 extending from the gravity center G1 in the direction opposite to the first half-line 251. Injecting electric charges into the active layer generates light, which creates an electric field that encircles the gravity center G1 within the two-dimensional photonic crystal. For a given point on the second half-line 252 at which the hole 242A is located, there is no hole at a point that is symmetrical to the aforementioned point with respect to the gravity center G1, so that there is a difference in the refractive index between the two points. Thus, the electric field vectors at the two points are prevented from canceling each other due to destructive interference, so that the resultant laser light is stronger than conventional examples.
摘要:
An objective of the present invention is to provide a surface emitting laser capable of selectively generating a laser oscillation in the fundamental mode and thereby emitting a single-wavelength laser light. In a surface emitting laser including an active layer and a two-dimensional photonic crystal provided on one side of the active layer, a reflector 45 or 46 is provided at least at a portion of the circumference of the two-dimensional photonic crystal. The reflector has a reflectance distribution in which the reflectance has a maximum value at a position where the amplitude envelope of the fundamental mode of an internal resonance light created within the two-dimensional photonic crystal. This design strengthens the fundamental mode while suppressing the second mode, thus enabling the laser oscillation in the fundamental mode to be selectively obtained, so that a single-wavelength laser light can be emitted.
摘要:
There are provided a substrate (11) with a moth-eye nano pattern (11M) on a surface of the substrate in which cone-shaped protrusions are periodically formed, a first semiconductor layer (21) configured to be formed on the moth-eye nano pattern (11M) and have a photonic crystal layer (21P), an active layer (23) configured to be formed on the first semiconductor layer (21) and have a light-emitting layer (23A), and a second semiconductor layer (25) configured to be formed on the active layer (23).
摘要:
A two-dimensional photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser 10 includes an active layer 11; and a photonic-crystal layer 12 including a two-dimensional photonic-crystal light-amplification portion 123 that is a first two-dimensional photonic-crystal region provided in a plate-shaped base body 121 disposed on one side of the active layer 11, and includes an amplification-portion photonic band gap 15 which is a photonic band gap formed between two photonic bands having a band edge at a predetermined point in a reciprocal lattice space, and a two-dimensional photonic-crystal light-reflection portion 125 that is a second two-dimensional photonic-crystal region provided around the two-dimensional photonic-crystal light-amplification portion 123, and includes a reflection-portion photonic band gap 16 which is a photonic band gap formed between two photonic bands having a band edge at the predetermined point of the reciprocal lattice space, wherein energy ranges of the amplification-portion photonic band gap 15 and the reflection-portion photonic band gap 16 partially overlap and are different.
摘要:
A method for manufacturing a surface emitting laser made of a group-III nitride semiconductor by an MOVPE method according to the present invention comprises: (a) a step of growing a first cladding layer of a first conductive type on a substrate; (b) a step of growing a first optical guide layer of said first conductive type on said first cladding layer; (c) a step of forming holes having a two-dimensional periodicity in a plane parallel to said first optical guide layer, in said first optical guide layer by etching; (d) a step of supplying a gas containing a group-III material and a nitrogen source and performing growth to form recessed portions having a facet of a predetermined plane direction above openings of said holes, thereby closing the openings of said holes; and (e) a step of planarizing said recessed portions by mass transport, after said openings of said holes have been closed, wherein after said planarizing step has been performed, at least one of side surfaces of said hole is a {10-10} facet.
摘要:
A solar cell (1) of the present invention includes a photoelectric conversion layer (2) and a photonic crystal provided inside the photoelectric conversion layer (2) in order to have a photonic band gap. The photonic crystal has defects (31) in order to provide a defect level in the photonic band gap. Q V which is a Q value representing a magnitude of a resonance effect yielded by coupling between the photonic crystal and an outside is substantially equal to Q α which is a Q value representing a magnitude of a resonance effect yielded by a medium of the photoelectric conversion layer (2).
摘要:
A two-dimensional photonic crystal laser includes: a pair of electrodes (a first electrode 171 and a second electrode 172); an active layer (11) provided between the pair of electrodes and configured to generate light of a predetermined wavelength upon being supplied with an electric current from the electrodes; and a two-dimensional photonic crystal layer (12) provided between any one of the pair of electrodes and the active layer (11) and including a plate-shaped base member (121) and a plurality of modified refractive index regions (122) disposed in the base member (121) and having a refractive index different from that of the base member (121), in which the plurality of modified refractive index regions (122) are disposed to be shifted by different shift amounts from respective lattice points of a two-dimensional lattice which are periodically disposed in the base member with a period corresponding to the predetermined wavelength, or/and are disposed at the respective lattice points with different areas, the shift amount or/and the area of each of the plurality of modified refractive index regions (122) is/are modified with a composite modulation period in which a plurality of periods different from each other are superposed on each other, and is/are expressed by a modulation phase Ψ(r↑) expressed using a vector r↑ indicating a position of each of the lattice points of the two-dimensional lattice, a vector k n ↑ indicating a combination of an inclination angle and an azimuthal angle of each of n (n is an integer of 2 or more) laser beams differing in the inclination angle and/or the azimuthal angle from each other, and an amplitude A n and a phase exp(iα n ) determined for each n as Ψ r ↑ = arg ∬ ∑ n A n exp i α n δ k ↑ − k n ↑ exp i k ↑ ⋅ r ↑ d k ↑ and the amplitude A n and/or the phase exp(iα n ) for each value of n differ(s) from each other in at least two different values of n.
摘要:
Provided is a two-dimensional photonic-crystal laser capable of scanning with a laser beam and emitting the laser beam without the laser beam being attenuated by an electrode. A two-dimensional photonic-crystal laser 1 formed by sandwiching, between a first electrode 181 and a second electrode 182, a layered body 10 including an active layer 13 and a two-dimensional photonic-crystal layer 15 in which modified refractive index areas 152 having a refractive index different from a refractive index of a plate-shaped base body 151 are periodically arranged two-dimensionally on the base body 151. The first electrode 181 is divided into a plurality of partial electrodes 1811, and the second electrode 182 is a frame-shaped electrode including a frame-shaped portion 1821 made of a conductor, the second electrode 182 having a window portion 1822 which is a space inside the frame-shaped portion 1821 being arranged to face a region enclosing a plurality of the partial electrodes 1811. A lens 19 provided on the side opposite to the layered body 10 of the second electrode 182 in a manner covering the entire window portion 1822 is included.
摘要:
The present invention is aimed at providing a photonic crystal laser capable of producing a radially-polarized halo-shaped laser beam having a smaller width than that of conventional beams. A photonic crystal laser 10 includes: an active layer 11; a ring-shaped photonic crystal 123 including a plate-shaped base body 121 on one side of the active layer 11, the base body 121 having a number of modified refractive index areas 122 of the same shape, the modified refractive index areas 122 having a refractive index different from that of the base body 121 and being periodically arranged in the circumferential direction of a ring, and each of the modified refractive index areas 122 being asymmetrically shaped with respect to an axis extending through the center of the modified refractive index area 122 in the radial direction of the ring; a first electrode 131 and a second electrode 132 facing each other across the active layer 11 and the ring-shaped photonic crystal 123; and a window provided in the second electrode 141, the window being capable of allowing passage of a laser light generated from the ring-shaped photonic crystal 123.