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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve a high-speed and reliable structure in a ridge type semiconductor optical device. SOLUTION: The semiconductor optical device apparatus has a structure where a conductive block structure is provided at one portion of a rectangular bottom section in a ridge type semiconductor optical device where both the sides of a mesa stripe are dug in a rectangular shape by depth that does not reach an active layer. The conductive block structure is achieved by a structure where the ion implantation of impurities is made to, for example, a channel or a semiconductor.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an element structure that can realize a short resonator laser which can be operated at a high speed with a low-threshold current or a wavelength tunable laser which is excellent in wavelength stability, and to provide a method of manufacturing the structure. SOLUTION: In a partial portion or the whole portion of the waveguide of the short resonator of the short resonator laser, the width of the waveguide is set to a lateral multi-mode permissible width. In this way, the element structure that can improve the gain of the short resonator laser and can reduce the electric resistance and thermal resistance of the laser while the characteristics of the laser are maintained is devised. In this case, the mode conversion loss in the laser resonator can be reduced by utilizing a self-image forming effect based on a multi-mode interference effect and, in addition, the light emitting edge of the laser becomes an ideal structure for the connection with an optical fiber, etc., because the light intensity distribution at the emitting edge becomes the lowest-order mode having a single peak. In addition, a method by which a laser resonator containing a multi-mode interference waveguide section can be manufactured with high dimensional accuracy by using both lithography and dry etching is also devised.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a laser structure by which a wavelength is made tunable over a wide wavelength range, and which can be manufactured easily. SOLUTION: The integrated laser structure comprises a first segment (1), a second segment (3) and a third segment (4) on a substrate composed of a semiconductor material; the first segment (2) amplifies light waves resonating in the laser structure, and it provides a filter for a low-selectivity interferometer; the second segment (3) continuously fine tunes and phase-adjusts the light waves; the third segment (4) provides reflection of the light waves in a wavelength selection manner. Respective segments are constituted, in such a way that a current is injected, where the current into the first segment (2) causes the wavelength shift of the low-selective interferometric filter, where the current into the second segment (3) causes the wavelength shift of a resonator mode, and where the current into the third segment (4) causes wavelength shift of the reflection of the wavelength selective reflection.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wavelength multiplex optical communication system that has a simpler configuration and a simpler adsjustment method than those of a conventional system and can transmit a multiplexed data signal. SOLUTION: An optical chaos signal wavelength hopping generator 101 of an optical transmitter 100 is provided with a DBR type laser diode device 10a that can oscillate lights of a plurality of wavelengths, the optical transmitter 100 generates an optical chaos signal which acts as an optical reference signal through mode hopping between two wavelengths λ1, λ2 and modulates the optical chaos signal having the two wavelengths λ1, λ2 with a received data signal and transmits the modulated chaos signal to an optical receiver 200. The optical receiver 200 is provided with an optical chaos signal wavelength hopping generator 201 similar to the optical chaos signal wavelength hopping generator 101, the optical receiver 200 injects the received optical chaos signal to the optical chaos signal wavelength hopping generator 201 to extract a synchronized optical chaos signal and use it for a reference signal, and demodulates the received optical chaos signal by using the reference signal.