摘要:
The present invention provides a semiconductor laser including a first conductive type of a lower clad layer 12, an active layer 14 provided on the lower clad layer 12, the active layer 14 including a plurality of quantum dots, and a second conductive type of an upper clad layer 18, the upper clad layer 18 being provided on the active layer 14 so as to have an isolated ridge portion 30 such that W1 ‰¤ Wtop + 0.4 µm where Wtop is the width of a top of the ridge portion 30 and W1 is the width of the ridge portion 30 at a height of 50 nm from a bottom of the ridge portion 30. The present invention also provides a method for manufacturing such a semiconductor laser.
摘要:
The ridge semiconductor laser 301 is a semiconductor laser in which a carrier stopper layer 16 made of an AlInAs compound, a clad layer 17 made of an AlGaInAs compound, and an etching stopper layer 18 made of an InGaAsP compound are stacked in sequence on one side of an active layer 14 made of an AlGaInAs compound. The ridge semiconductor laser 301 is provided with a ridge waveguide 40 including, in a layer made of an InP compound, a diffraction grating 20' made of an InGaAsP compound on the opposite side of the clad layer 17 of the etching stopper layer 18.
摘要:
A disclosed vertical cavity surface emitting laser element includes a substrate, a laminated body sandwiching a semiconductor active layer with an upper reflecting mirror and a lower reflecting mirror, a lower electrode, and an upper electrode. The laser element emits laser light in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate when an electric current is supplied between the upper electrode and the lower electrode. The laser element further includes a selective oxidation layer in the upper reflecting mirror having a current blocking structure made of an oxidized region and an unoxidized region, and a detectable portion formed on a side surface of a mesa structure shaped by the upper reflecting mirror including the selective oxidation layer and the active layer, thereby enabling detecting the position of the selective oxidation layer from a top of the laminated body in a depth direction of the laminated body.
摘要:
A surface emitting laser (100a) includes an active layer (3) disposed on a semiconductor substrate (2a), and a pair of upper and lower electrodes (5,6) for injecting carriers into the active layer (3). The plane surface of the lower electrode (6) is shaped into a star so that injection of current into the active layer (3) from the lower electrode (6) is carried out with a high density at the center of the lower electrode (6) and with a low density at its periphery part. In the surface emitting laser (100a), the density distribution of the carriers injected into the active layer corresponds to the power distribution of light inside the active layer. Thereby, hole burning due to an increase in the current density in the region of the active layer corresponding to the peripheral part of the electrode is avoided, and the transverse mode stability during high output operation is significantly enhanced to improve high-output characteristic.
摘要:
To prevent electrostatic breakdown and improve reliability concerning surface-emitting type devices and methods for manufacturing the same. A surface-emitting type device includes a substrate (10), a light emitting element section (20) above the substrate (10), including a first semiconductor section (22) of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor section (24) that functions as an active layer, and a third semiconductor section (26), (28) of a second conductivity type which are disposed from the side of the substrate (10), a rectification element section (40) above the substrate (10), including a first supporting section (42) composed of an identical composition of the first semiconductor section (22), a second supporting section (44) composed of an identical composition of the second semiconductor section (24), a fourth semiconductor section (46, 48), and a fifth semiconductor section (50), which are disposed from the side of the substrate (10), and first and second electrodes (30), (32) for driving the light emitting element section (20). The fourth and fifth semiconductor sections (46, 48, 50) are connected in parallel between the first and second electrodes (30, 32), and have a rectification action in a reverse direction with respect to the light emitting element section (20).
摘要:
An InGaAl semiconductor laser comprising a first layer of first conductivity type, an active layer whose forbidden band width is narrower than that of the first layer, and a second layer of second conductivity type whose forbidden band width is wider than that of the active layer, wherein the second layer has a planar portion and a stripelike projection structure, a stripelike optical waveguide forming layer of the second conductivity type having a larger refractive index than that of the second layer is formed on the stripelike projection structure, a current-constricting layer of the first conductivity type or of a high resistance covering the top of the planar portion of the second layer, the side of the projection structure of the second layer, and the side of the optical waveguide is formed, and the difference between the thermal expansion coefficient of the current constricting layer and that of the second layer is in the range of -4x10-9/°C to +4x10-9/°C.