摘要:
A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) includes a semiconductor device having a pair of mirror portions, an active region, a tunnel junction, a pair of cladding layers and a substrate. Heat generated by the VCSEL dissipates through the cladding layers, which utilize an indium phosphide material. The VCSEL also includes selective etches that are used to aperture the active region to allow electric current to be injected into the active region.
摘要:
In a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with an active region, and first and second mirror stacks forming a resonant cavity, the VCSEL having a radial electrode configuration with a first electrode disposed around the base of the first mirror stack near one side of the active region, a second electrode on the other side of the active region with a first contacting region and a second contacting region on each side of the active region in contact with the respective electrodes, each of the contacting regions providing a current path for distributed current through the active region, the improvement wherein there is a nonlinear grading of resistivity in at least one of the contacting regions between at least one of the electrodes and the active region. Specifically, in one embodiment, the first contacting region has a first layered section abutting the first electrode which is highly conductive to radial current flow and at least a second layered section between the first layered section and the active region which is more resistive to axial current flow than to radial current flow in the first layered section. In a further embodiment, one of the two contacting regions includes a layered section which is radially graded in resistivity so as to restrict the current injection to a radius less than that of the resonant cavity, thereby improving device efficiency and preferentially supporting single mode operation.
摘要:
A surface-normal cavity, AlGaAs, Distributed-Bragg Reflector laser. The laser is constructed on a GaAs substrate. There is a nipinipi . . . gain-producing active section comprised of a plurality of gain-producing i-segments disposed at periodic intervals with respect to the wavelength of an intended operating frequency of the laser is stacked vertically with respect to the surface of the substrate. A pair of Distributed-Bragg-Reflector stacks are disposed at the respective ends of the nipinipi . . . active section. A pair of electrodes are formed on either side of and operably connected to the nipinipi . . . active section in electrical contact therewith for applying a driving current to the nipinipi . . . active section in parallel. In one embodiment, the nipinipi . . . active section has interfaces between p+ and n+ sections thereof positioned at standing wave maxima of the intended operating frequency of the laser. In another, the nipinipi . . . active section has interfaces between p+ and n+ sections thereof displaced from standing wave maxima of the intended operating frequency of the laser an amount which will allow the impedance discontinuity of the active segment to result in more in-phase reflection components whereby the gain-producing active section acts as a mirror and the net effective reflectivity of the laser is increased.
摘要:
Improvement in the temperature stability of a pair of resonator filters (70 and 71) disposed on an acoustic medium (39), which resonators are coupled by a first coupler means (500), is achieved by providing a second coupler means (501) for coupling between the resonator filters. The second coupler means is chosen so that acoustic interferences between waves propagating in the first and second coupling means compensates for the temperature variation in the propagation velocities of surface waves in different directions on the acoustic medium. The phase provided between second coupler means must be in near quadrature to the phase provided by the first coupler means.In an embodiment constructed according to the present invention which utilizes parallel electromechanical (600) and folded acoustical intercavity couplers (72) to provide the necessary pair of different temperature coefficient paths, the restriction that the phases be in near quadrature provides nearly flat phase versus temperature characteristics over several tens of degrees centigrade.
摘要:
An rf sputter etch or reactive sputter etch apparatus which can be used for etching substrates at oblique angles utilizes a cathode formed from a metal grid and an equipotential enclosure. The substrate is supported in the enclosure either parallel to or at an oblique angle to the surface of the grid.
摘要:
The successful application of the reactive ion etching technique to the III-V compounds requires the use of the appropriate etch gas. We have found that a gas mixture of chlorine (Cl.sub.2) and Oxygen (O.sub.2) will cleanly and effectively etch heated substrates of GaAs and InP and their ternary and quaternary alloys. The etch rate is increased by heating the substrate to a temperature of 100.degree. to 400.degree. C.
摘要:
A tunable laser source with integrated optical modulator. The tunable laser source is a widely tunable semiconductor laser that is comprised of an active region on top of a thick, low bandgap, waveguide layer, wherein both the waveguide layer and the active region are fabricated between a p-doped region and an n-doped region. An electro-absorption modulator is integrated into the semiconductor laser, wherein the electro-absorption modulator shares the waveguide layer with the semiconductor laser.
摘要:
A Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) is disclosed, comprising an optical cavity bounded by a top mirror and a bottom mirror, wherein the top mirror has multiple layers of alternating refractive index, of which the bottom three or more layers of the top mirror are deep oxidation layers having an increased oxidation length, a light emitting active region between the top mirror and the bottom mirror, and an aperture with tapered edges between the active region and the top mirror, wherein the aperture has a thickness, a taper length, an oxide aperture length, a taper angle, and an aperture opening diameter designed to reduce an optical mode's diameter without significantly increasing the optical mode's round trip scattering loss.
摘要:
A controller for use with sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector (SGDBR) lasers is presented. An exemplary controller includes a table of settings representing a control surface, each setting corresponding to a separate operating point of the SGDBR laser, a first mirror current controller and a second mirror current controller. The first mirror controller and the second mirror current controller respectively control a first mirror current and a second mirror current about an estimated extremum point of the control surface to substantially maintain alignment between each of a first mirror and a second mirror, and an associated cavity mode. The first mirror current and the second mirror current can be locked at a substantially fixed distance from the extremum of the control surface.
摘要:
A tunable laser is disclosed including a gain section for creating a light beam over a bandwidth, a phase section for controlling the light beam around a center frequency of the bandwidth, a waveguide for guiding and reflecting the light beam in a cavity including a relatively low energy bandgap separate-confinement-heterostructure (SCH), a front mirror bounding an end of the cavity and a back mirror bounding an opposite end of the cavity wherein gain is provided by at least one of the group comprising the phase section, the front mirror and the back mirror.