SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR AND LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20230035423A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-02

    申请号:US17787976

    申请日:2020-12-23

    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a spatial light modulator, etc., the spatial light modulator being capable of dynamically controlling the phase distribution of light, and provided with a structure having a smaller pixel arrangement period and suitable for high-speed operation. The spatial light modulator includes a substrate. The substrate has a front surface, a back surface, and through-holes arranged one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally and penetrating between the front surface and the back surface. The spatial light modulator further includes layered structures each covering the inner walls of the through-holes. Each layered structure includes a first electroconductive layer on the inner wall, a dielectric layer on the first electroconductive layer and having optical transparency, and a second electroconductive layer on the dielectric layer and having optical transparency. At least one of the first and second electroconductive layers is electrically isolated for each group including one or more through-holes.

    LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE
    12.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200209653A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-02

    申请号:US16622497

    申请日:2018-06-13

    Abstract: The present embodiment relates to a light-emitting device that enables reduction in attenuation or diffraction effect caused by a semiconductor light-emitting device with respect to modulated light outputted from a spatial light modulator, and the light-emitting device includes the semiconductor light-emitting device that outputs light from a light output surface and the reflection type spatial light modulator that modulates the light. The spatial light modulator includes a light input/output surface having the area larger than the area of a light input surface of the semiconductor light-emitting device, modulates light taken through a region facing the light output surface of the semiconductor light-emitting device in the light input/output surface, and outputs the modulated light from another region of the light input/output surface to a space other than the light input surface of the semiconductor light-emitting device.

    LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE
    13.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190181613A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-13

    申请号:US16323625

    申请日:2017-08-10

    Abstract: The present embodiment relates to a light emitting device having a structure capable of removing zero order light from output light of an S-iPM laser. The light emitting device includes a semiconductor light emitting element and a light shielding member. The semiconductor light emitting element includes an active layer, a pair of cladding layers, and a phase modulation layer. The phase modulation layer has a basic layer and a plurality of modified refractive index regions, each of which is individually disposed at a specific position. The light shielding member has a function of passing through a specific optical image output along an inclined direction and shielding zero order light output along a normal direction of a light emitting surface.

    SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULE
    14.
    发明申请
    SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODULE 有权
    半导体激光模块

    公开(公告)号:US20170012407A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-01-12

    申请号:US15115713

    申请日:2014-11-10

    CPC classification number: H01S5/0683 H01S5/022 H01S5/105 H01S5/18 H01S5/187

    Abstract: A surface emitting laser element capable of emitting a main beam and a sub-beam, and a monitoring light detection element capable of detecting a light intensity of the sub-beam are included, the surface emitting laser element is a PCSEL, the main beam and the sub-beam are emitted in an upward direction of the surface emitting laser element and are inclined to each other at a predetermined angle, and respective changes in a peak light intensity of the main beam and a peak light intensity of the sub-beam with respect to a value of a driving current of the surface emitting laser element are correlated with each other. Therefore, if an output of the monitoring light detection element indicating the peak light intensity of the sub-beam is used, the peak light intensity of the main beam can be estimated.

    Abstract translation: 包括能够发射主光束和子光束的表面发射激光器元件和能够检测子光束的光强度的监视光检测元件,表面发射激光器元件是PCSEL,主光束和 子光束在表面发射激光器元件的向上方向上发射,并且以预定角度彼此倾斜,并且主光束的峰值光强度和子光束的峰值光强度各自变化, 相对于表面发射激光元件的驱动电流的值彼此相关。 因此,如果使用表示子光束的峰值光强度的监视光检测元件的输出,则可以估计主光束的峰值光强度。

    LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE
    18.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210273411A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-02

    申请号:US17054000

    申请日:2019-05-14

    Abstract: The present embodiment relates to a light-emitting device comprising a reflective metasurface modulating a phase for each of pixels constituting a one- or two-dimensional array. The light-emitting device comprises a surface emitting laser element, a light guide layer, and the metasurface. The metasurface has a light transmissive layer including a dielectric layer, one metal film on one surface thereof, and the other metal film on the other surface thereof. In each of unit regions corresponding to the pixels, the light transmissive layer includes a portion exposed without being covered with the metal film. The width of each unit region and the thickness of the light transmissive layer are smaller than the wavelength of the laser light to the metasurface. The metasurface modulates the phase of the laser light for each unit region. A first light output surface outputs the modulated laser.

    LIGHT EMISSION DEVICE
    19.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210226412A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-22

    申请号:US17269313

    申请日:2019-08-27

    Abstract: The present embodiment relates to a light emission device capable of removing zero-order light from output light of an S-iPM laser. The light emission device comprises an active layer and a phase modulation layer. The phase modulation layer includes a base layer and a plurality of modified refractive index regions. In a state in which a virtual square lattice is set on the phase modulation layer, a center of gravity of each modified refractive index region is separated from a corresponding lattice point, and a rotation angle around each lattice point that decides a position of the center of gravity of each modified refractive index region is set according to a phase distribution for forming an optical image. A lattice spacing and an emission wavelength satisfy a condition of M-point oscillation in a reciprocal lattice space of the phase modulation layer. A magnitude of at least one of in-plane wavenumber vectors in four directions formed in the reciprocal lattice space and each including a wavenumber spread corresponding to an angle spread of the output light is smaller than 2π/λ.

    LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE AND PRODUCTION METHOD FOR SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20200373739A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-26

    申请号:US16769805

    申请日:2018-11-28

    Abstract: The embodiment relates to a light-emitting device in which a positional relationship between a modified refractive index region's gravity-center position and the associated lattice point differs from a conventional device, and a production method. In this device, a stacked body including a light-emitting portion and a phase modulation layer optically coupled to the light-emitting portion is on a substrate. The phase modulation layer includes a base layer and plural modified refractive index regions in the base layer. Each modified refractive index region's gravity-center position locates on a virtual straight line passing through a corresponding reference lattice point among lattice points of a virtual square lattice on the base layer's design plane. A distance between the reference lattice point and the modified refractive index region's gravity center along the virtual straight line is individually set such that this device outputs light forming an optical image.

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