摘要:
Tunable laser diode having an integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer is provided. A first and a second waveguide are arranged vertically relative to one another with respect to the layer plane as stripe-shaped layers. The second waveguide extends over the entire resonator length between mirror end faces, whereas the first waveguide is only present in one or more interconnected sections provided as coupling region. The waveguides are arranged in such close proximity to one another in this coupling region that coupling occurs between modes guided in the waveguides. An active layer and a tuning layer are arranged vertically relative to one another in these waveguides. A separate current injection into this tuning layer and into this active layer are present, and an interconnected section of the waveguide not present over the entire resonator length is a respective, natural multiple of the coupling length of two specific modes in the waveguides to be coupled.
摘要:
A semiconductor optical device such as a light modulator or a tunable laser emitting diode has either light absorbing/transmitting layer, light modulation layer or tuning layer responsive to an electric field for changing the intensity or the wavelength of an output light, and the light absorbing/transmitting layer, the light modulation layer or the tuning layer is implemented by a super-lattice structure formed by using a first compound semiconductor material and a second compound semiconductor material, wherein the second compound semiconductor material is larger in electron affinity as well as the total of electron affinity and energy band gap than the first compound semiconductor material so that a large extinction ratio or a wide variation in wavelength is achieved.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a separate confinement heterostructure laser, and in particular to a stripe geometry, ridge waveguide geometry, having an active layer positioned between a pair of n-type and p-type emitter layers which inject charge carriers under the ridge guide into the active layer. A pair of ohmic contacts are used to inject one type of charge carrier into at least one emitter layer outside the ridge area. When a signal is applied to the pumping contacts (p- and n-type) in forward bias and an intermittent electric field is applied to the ohmic side contacts, the flow of current injected by the side contacts controls the densities of carriers injected by the pumping contacts, thereby controlling spatially and temporally the optical gain and optical confinement factor. In another embodiment, a stripe geometry, ridge waveguide heterostructure laser is disclosed having pumping contacts under the ridge guide to an active layer between two emitter layers with a portion coextending transversely through the ridge and another portion extending laterally outside the ridge. A pair of electro-optic dielectric layers are positioned on the portion of one emitter layer extending outside the ridge. An electric field is applied to the emitter layers under the ridge contact to inject two types of charge carriers into the active layer, and an intermittent electric field is applied across the dielectric layer outside the ridge guide to modulate the refractive index, thereby controlling the optical mode shape. By synchronously applying signals to the pumping contacts and to the side contacts, modulation above 50 MHz can be attained and picosecond pulses can be generated in the devices of both embodiments, thereby reducing chirp and relaxation oscillations.
摘要:
The output electromagnetic power of optoelectric heterojunction semiconductor devices having an active semiconductor layer with a mobile charge carrier plasma is controlled by applying a microwave electric field inside the active layer by means of at least two semiconductor contacts to the active layer that are conducting to at least one type of mobile charge carrier and blocking to another type of charge carrier. An electrical signal is applied inside the active layer to transform the distribution of energies and equivalent temperature of the charge carriers of the mobile charge carriers in order to control light emission and absorption in the active layer. A modulator is disclosed with two such semiconductor contacts on the active layer in which charge carriers are optically generated. A monolithically integrated, cavity-coupled laser and modulator is disclosed in which the laser and modulator are fabricated on a common substrate and the laser is a distributed feedback laser (DFB). Another monolithically integrated cavity-coupled laser and modulator is fabricated in which the laser and modulator are coupled Fabrey-Perot optical cavities separated by a low-loss, 1-3 um groove. Operating modes of the modulator and laser are disclosed which include synchronously controlling the intensity period and phase of the signal controlling the electric field inside the active layer of the modulator and the signal controlling the laser. Best mode of operation is disclosed in which the signal sources to the laser and modulator are synchronously controlled to a cavity-coupled monolithically integrated laser and modulator, thereby generating short pulses of photonic radiation at a high data rate and with best mode and spectral quality.
摘要:
The output electromagnetic power of optoelectric heterojunction semiconductor devices having an active semiconductor layer with a mobile charge-carrier plasma is controlled by applying a microwave electric field inside the active layer by means of at least two semiconductor contacts to the active layer that are conducting to at least one type of mobile charge carrier and blocking to another type of charge carrier. An electrical signal is applied inside the active layer to transform the distribution of energies and equivalent temperature of the charge carriers of the mobile charge-carrier plasma in order to control light emission and absorption in the active layer. A heterojunction semiconductor laser is disclosed with two sets of electrical contacts: one to apply pumping currents and the other to control the electric field. Operating modes of the heterojunction devices are discussed which include high frequency (up to 100 GHz) modulation of the electromagnetic output of the laser, formation of picosecond optical pulses, and simultaneous amplitude modulation and mixing two signals by controlling synchronously the intensity, period and phase of pumping current and electric-field inside the active layer.
摘要:
Various technologies described herein pertain to injection locking on-chip laser(s) and external on-chip resonator(s). A system includes a first integrated circuit chip and a second integrated circuit chip. The first integrated circuit chip and the second integrated circuit chip are separate integrated circuit chips and can be optically coupled to each other. The first integrated circuit chip includes a laser configured to emit light via a first path and a second path. The second integrated circuit chip includes a resonator formed of an electrooptic material. The resonator can receive the light emitted by the laser of the first integrated circuit chip via the first path and return feedback light to the laser of the first integrated circuit chip via the first path. The feedback light can cause injection locking of the laser to the resonator to control the light emitted by the laser (e.g., via the first and second paths).
摘要:
Objects are achieved by an optical semiconductor device comprising: a structure 61 including a substrate 50, a diffraction grating 52a, an active layer 54 and a refractive index control layer 60; and an laser element 100 including an electrode 92a for the active layer, an electrode 92b for the refractive index control layer and an electrode 92c for switching, wherein a pre-bias current is previously supplied from the electrode 92a for the active layer to the active layer 54 in a state where a switching current is not supplied from the electrode 92c for switching to the active layer 54, and then while a current Idrive for activation is supplied from the electrode 92a for the active layer to the active layer 54, the laser element 100 is turned on by supplying the switching current Isw from the electrode 92c for switching to a part of the active layer 54, as well as turning off the laser element 100 by halting the supply of the switching current Isw.
摘要:
A widely tunable laser structure with at least two different sampled or superstructure gratings is provided. The widely tunable laser only requires as much tuning currents as gratings. In the case of two gratings, two tuning currents, instead of 3 tuning currents in a typical laser, are needed. Alternatively, the laser structure can be denoted a sampled or superstructure grating tunable laser with wide tunability characteristics, with a limited amount of needed tuning parameters, e.g., two currents.
摘要:
A tuning layer is disposed spaced by some distance apart from an active layer in a thickness direction, the tuning layer having a transition wavelength shorter than a wavelength of light radiated from the active layer. A diffraction grating layer is disposed between the active layer and tuning layer, a refractive index of the diffraction grating layer being periodically changed along an optical resonator direction. A first electrode supplies the active layer with current. A second electrode supplies the tuning layer with current independently from the current to be supplied to the active layer. A TTG-DFB laser is provided which can maintain a proper coupling coefficient and has characteristics suitable for application to communication light sources.