摘要:
A distributed feedback semiconductor laser which has, in an active layer or an adjoining layer, first corrugations causing periodic refractive index variations in the travelling direction of light and performs laser oscillation by the injection of a current into said active layer portion. In accordance with the present invention, second corrugations are formed to be aligned obliquely to said first corrugations, thereby causing additional loss to the TM mode to permit oscillation in the TE mode alone.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser is disclosed in which a light emitting region having a light emitting layer and a waveguide region having a waveguide layer which is coupled to at least one side of the light emitting layer with a high efficiency are integrated on the same substrate; the light emitting region includes an active filter section having a diffraction grating equipped with a band-pass filter function; the light emitting region and the waveguide region are electrically isolated and are each provided with an electrode; and the oscillation wavelength of the semiconductor lase is changed by changing the refractive indices of at least the waveguide region and the active filter section through voltage application or current injection to the electrodes, thereby producing a narrow-linewidth, single-wavelength oscillation output light of a wavelength which corresponds to the transmission wavelength of the active filter section determined by the preset refractive indices of the waveguide region and the active filter section.
摘要:
An optical switch is disclosed in which a switching section for switching the optical path of an incident light is formed in a region where two semiconductor optical waveguides cross each other. The switching section is composed of n-, i-, p-, i- and n-type semiconductor layers laminated in that order, each i-type layer being formed by a superlattice layer composed of a plurality of semiconductor thin films so that the i-type layer is higher in the effective refractive index and smaller in the effective energy gap than each n-type layer. The impurity concentrations of the n-, i-, p-, i-, and n-type layers and the thicknesses of the i-, p-, and i-type layers are determined so that the i-, p- and i-type layers are depleted in a thermal equilibrium state.
摘要:
An optical logic element is disclosed which performs an XOR operation through utilization of the high-speed property of light. On each branched waveguide of a Mach-Zehnder interference type optical waveguide there is provided a phase modulating element whose refractive index undergoes a change when it is irradiated by light. The interference type optical waveguide is adapted to provide different optical output levels when the refractive index changes of the phase modulating elements are both zero or a predetermined value and when they differ from each other. Thus, the optical logic element is capable of performing the XOR or XNOR operation at an ultrahigh speed.
摘要:
An optical waveguide switch is disclosed in which at least two optical waveguides intersect at a predetermined angle to each other to provide, on both sides of the intersection region, input side optical waveguide regions for receiving incident light and output side optical waveguide regions for outputting guided light, and in which the incident light is input into one of the input side optical waveguide regions and is output from a desired one of the output side optical waveguide regions. In accordance with the present invention, an optically nonlinear material whose refractive index undergoes a substantial variation, depending on the intensity of incident light, is disposed in the intersection region. A loop is provided in association with a corresponding one of the input side optical waveguide regions for essentially branching the guided light in the corresponding waveguide output side optical waveguide region for feedback to the corresponding input side optical waveguide region.
摘要:
An optical modulation device is disclosed in which a difference between the photon energy of incident light and the band-gap energy of the modulation waveguide layer is set to a value greater than 50 meV to thereby suppress the degradation of the modulation voltage and the modulation band width which is caused by an increase in the intensity of incident light and in that the optical modulation device is formed in a predetermined length to thereby decrease the modulation voltage. The energy gap of the optical waveguide layer of the optical modulation device is varied continuously or discontinuously in the direction of its thickness to provide a constant absorption coefficient thickwise of the optical waveguide layer so that the electric field intensity distribution in the optical waveguide layer is compensated for, by which overlap of the light distribution and the absorption coefficient is increased so as to decrease the modulation voltage and broaden the modulation band by the reduction of the length of the device. The composition, thickness and stripe width of the optical waveguide layer are changed so that its absorption coefficient increases from the light receiving end face of the optical waveguide layer toward its light emitting end face, thereby making the number of carriers absorbed per unit length substantially constant in the direction of travel of light.
摘要:
An optical modulation element is disclosed which has, on a substrate directly or through a lower clad layer, an optical waveguide layer of a low impurity concentration, an upper clad layer of a refractive index smaller than that of the optical waveguide layer, and electrodes, and in which light of a constant intensity incident on a light incident end face of the optical waveguide layer is intensity-modulated by changing the absorption coefficient of the optical waveguide layer by means of an electric field applied thereto across the electrodes so that the thus modulated light is emitted from a light emitting end face of the optical waveguide layer. In accordance with the present invention, a plurality of low impurity concentration regions and a plurality of high impurity concentration regions are disposed alternately with each other in contact with at least one of the lower and upper clad layers in the direction of travel of light in such a manner that the distribution density of the plurality of high impurity concentration regions increases in the direction of travel of light.
摘要:
There is disclosed a light emitting device comprising at least a semiconductor laser and an optical modulating element for modulating the output light from the semiconductor laser. In accordance with the present invention, a capacitive element for suppressing noise of the semiconductor laser arising from reflected light is disposed in parallel relation to current injection terminals of the semiconductor laser.
摘要:
An optical modulation element is disclosed in which a diffraction grating is formed along a waveguide for guiding unmodulated incident light and inclined to the direction of travel of the light, and a structure is provided for changing the refractive index of the waveguide portion where the diffraction grating is formed. the refractive index of the waveguide portion can be effected by voltage application, by current injection or by light irradiation.
摘要:
An optical semiconductor device manufacturing method is disclosed which involves an ion implantation step of implanting ions into a compound semiconductor wafer through an ion implantation mask and an annealing step of activating atoms in the compound semiconductor wafer through an annealing mask film. The ion implantation step and the annealing step are performed in succession after laminating mono- or multi-layered compound semiconductor layers as the ion implantation mask and the annealing mask film on the compound semiconductor wafer.