Abstract:
The present invention provides a light source for light circuits on a silicon platform. A vertical laser cavity is formed by a gain region arranged between a first mirror structure and a second mirror structure, both acting as mirrors, by forming a grating region including an active material in a silicon layer in a semiconductor structure or wafer structure. A waveguide for receiving light from the region of the mirrors is formed within or to be connected to the region of the mirrors, and functions as an output coupler for the VCL. Thereby, vertical lasing modes are coupled to lateral in-plane modes of the in-plane waveguide formed in the silicon layer, and light can be provided to e.g. photonic circuits on a SOI or CMOS substrate in the silicon.
Abstract:
A semiconductor surface emitting laser (SEL) includes an active zone comprising quantum well structures separated by spacer layers. The quantum well structures are configured to provide optical gain for the SEL at a lasing wavelength, λlase. Each quantum well structure and an adjacent spacer layer are configured to form an optical pair of a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR). The active zone including a plurality of the DBR optical pairs is configured to provide optical feedback for the SEL at λlase.
Abstract:
The illustrated embodiments provide a system and a method of manufacture for a complex-coupled distributed feedback laser diode. The improved laser diode has a complex-coupled metal grating to enforce the laser to emit in a longitudinal single-frequency and suppress dynamical instabilities. In addition, the improved device uses a transparent conductive cladding layer over the metal grating and makes therefore the need for re-growth redundant.
Abstract:
A beat signal generating device including first and second monomode lasers for generating radiation of a first and second wavelengths respectively; a first and a second output port; a phase modulating unit for modifying both the phase of radiation generated by both the first laser and second laser, wherein radiation generated by the first laser is transmitted through the second laser and superposed with the radiation generated by the second laser at the second output port, and the radiation generated by the second laser is transmitted through the first laser and superposed with the radiation generated by the first laser at the first output port, such that a first beat signal will be emitted at the first output port and a second beat signal will be emitted at the second output port, wherein the phase between the beat signals can be adjusted by means of the phase modulating unit.
Abstract:
The illustrated embodiments provide a system and a method of manufacture for a complex-coupled distributed feedback laser diode. The improved laser diode has a complex-coupled metal grating to enforce the laser to emit in a longitudinal single-frequency and suppress dynamical instabilities. In addition, the improved device uses a transparent conductive cladding layer over the metal grating and makes therefore the need for re-growth redundant.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for improved single-mode selection in a quantum cascade laser. In one example, a distributed feedback grating incorporates both index-coupling and loss-coupling components. The loss-coupling component facilitates selection of one mode from two possible emission modes by periodically incorporating a thin layer of “lossy” semiconductor material on top of the active region to introduce a sufficiently large loss difference between the two modes. The lossy layer is doped to a level sufficient to induce considerable free-carrier absorption losses for one of the two modes while allowing sufficient gain for the other of the two modes. In alternative implementations, the highly-doped layer may be replaced by other low-dimensional structures such as quantum wells, quantum wires, and quantum dots with significant engineered intraband absorption to selectively increase the free-carrier absorption losses for one of multiple possible modes so as to facilitate single-mode operation.
Abstract:
A gain-coupled distributed feedback (DFB) semiconductor laser includes a grating formed by grooves through at least a part of an active region of a laser cavity. The DFB laser may be configured with a substantially pure gain-coupled grating and may be configured to provide facet power asymmetry. The grating may include at least a first-order grating section and a second-order grating section. A lasing wavelength may be obtained at the Bragg wavelength of the second-order grating section by substantially eliminating index coupling in the grating. The first-order grating section may act as a reflector for the lasing wavelength, thereby producing asymmetric power distribution in the laser cavity.
Abstract:
An edge emitting semiconductor laser chip includes a semiconductor body, which comprises at least one active zone in which electromagnetic radiation is generated during the operation of the semiconductor laser chip. At least one contact strip is arranged on a top surface at a top side of the semiconductor body. At least two delimiting structures are for delimiting the current spreading between the contact strip and the active zone. The delimiting structures are arranged on both sides of the contact strip.
Abstract:
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip having a semiconductor layer sequence with a plurality of layers arranged over one another includes an active layer with an active region which emits electromagnetic radiation in an emission direction when in operation, a first grating layer on the active layer which, in an emission direction, has a plurality of stripes in the form of grating lines extending perpendicularly to the emission direction with spaces arranged therebetween, and a second grating layer on the first grating layer which covers the stripes of the first grating layer and the spaces and which comprises a transparent material applied by non-epitaxial application.
Abstract:
A semiconductor laser according to the present invention includes a first reflective region and a second reflective region disposed opposite to the first reflective region in a predetermined direction of an optical axis. The first reflective region has a plurality of gain waveguides each including an active layer and a plurality of refractive-index controlling waveguides each having a first diffraction grating formed therein. The gain waveguides and the refractive-index controlling waveguides are alternately arranged at a predetermined pitch in the direction of the optical axis. The second reflective region has a second diffraction grating.