摘要:
A semiconductor optical device which has a ridge structure includes a waveguide area between paired mesa trenches; first and second mount areas disposed outside the mesa trenches; a first spacer layer disposed in a first mount area and a second spacer layer disposed in a second mount area; a first metal layer electrically connected to an upper cladding layer in the waveguide area and extending from the waveguide area over the first mount area; and a second metal layer disposed over the second mount area. Thicknesses from a back surface of the semiconductor optical device to the first metal layer in the first mount area and to the second metal layer in the second mount area are both larger than thickness from the back surface to the first metal layer in the waveguide area.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser including a p-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and an n-type semiconductor layer sequentially laminated on a p-type semiconductor substrate; and a diffraction grating in the n-type semiconductor layer along the direction of an optical waveguide. The reflectance of light on two facing laser end surfaces is asymmetric; the length L of the active layer in the optical waveguide direction is 130 μm or shorter; the diffraction grating material has a photoluminescence wavelength of 1,200 nm or longer; and κL, which is the product of the length L and the coupling coefficient κ of the diffraction grating, is at least 1.5 and smaller than 3.0.
摘要:
An optical module includes a substrate having an upper surface and a groove on the upper surface; an optical fiber having a core and an end facet, disposed in the groove of the substrate; an optical semiconductor device having an upper surface and a light interactive area on the upper surface optically coupled to the optical fiber; and a block having a side surface on which the optical semiconductor device is fixed and a lower surface perpendicular to the side surface. The optical semiconductor device is fixed onto the side surface of the block so that the distance from the light interactive area to the lower surface of the block is equal to the distance from the core of the optical fiber to the upper surface of the substrate; and the block is disposed on the substrate, with the lower surface contacting the upper surface of the substrate, so that the light interactive area is opposed to the end facet of the optical fiber. The core of the optical fiber and the light interactive area are accurately aligned with the surface of the substrate as a reference regardless of the thickness of the substrate, resulting in a high coupling efficiency between the optical fiber and the optical semiconductor device.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser includes a semiconductor laser portion including an active layer portion having a p-type cladding layer, an active layer, and an n-type cladding layer on a p-type InP semiconductor substrate; and current confining structures that fill spaces on both sides of the semiconductor laser portion. Each of the current confining structures includes a first p-type InP layer, a Ru-doped InP layer, and a second p-type InP layer. The Ru-doped InP layer is in contact only with the first and second p-type InP layers. To obtain the structure, timing of introduction of a halogen-containing gas is adjusted.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser comprises: a ridge structure including a p-type cladding layer, an active layer, and an n-type cladding layer stacked on one another; and a burying layer burying sides of the ridge structure. The burying layer includes a p-type semiconductor layer and an n-type semiconductor layer that form a pn junction; and one of the p-type semiconductor layer and the n-type semiconductor layer has a carrier concentration of 5×1017 cm−3 or less near the pn junction.
摘要:
In a semiconductor laser device including a stack of semiconductor laser chips, each semiconductor laser chip includes opposite upper and lower surfaces, an upper electrode disposed on a portion of the upper surface, and a lower electrode disposed on a portion of the lower surface. Two adjacent semiconductor laser chips in the stack are connected such that the lower electrode of an upper laser chip is bonded to the upper electrode of a lower laser chip with solder. Since the upper electrode (lower electrode) is disposed on a portion of the upper surface (lower surface) of each laser chip, i.e., it is not disposed over the entire upper surface (lower surface) of the laser chip, the solder hardly flows over the side surface of the laser chip, so that unwanted short-circuiting between the upper electrode and the lower electrode of the laser chip is avoided. In addition, when solder is molten between two electrodes, the molten solder spreads over the surfaces of the electrodes, and the surface tension of the molten solder draws the electrodes to each other so that the electrodes are automatically aligned with each other. Therefore, in this stacked laser device, since the surface tension of the molten solder functions between the upper electrode and the lower electrode of the adjacent laser chips, automatic alignment is performed between these laser chips.
摘要:
A semiconductor optical element and an integrated semiconductor optical element suppressing leakage current flow through a burying layer. A mesa-stripe-shaped laminate structure includes a p-type cladding layer, an active layer, and an n-type cladding layer. A burying layer on a side of the laminated structure includes, a first p-type semiconductor layer, a first n-type semiconductor layer, an Fe-doped semiconductor layer, a second n-type semiconductor layer, a low carrier concentration semiconductor layer, and a second p-type semiconductor layer. The Fe-doped semiconductor layer is not grown on a (111)B surface of the first p-type semiconductor layer and of the first n-type semiconductor layer. The second n-type semiconductor layer is not grown on a (111)B surface of the first p-type semiconductor layer, of the first n-type semiconductor layer, and of the Fe-doped semiconductor layer.
摘要:
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor optical device comprises: forming a groove on a first semiconductor layer; forming a second semiconductor layer containing aluminum in the groove; forming a third semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; forming an insulating layer on the third semiconductor layer covering the region opposite the second semiconductor layer; forming a stripe-shaped structure by etching the first semiconductor layer and the third semiconductor layer without exposing the second semiconductor layer, using the insulating layer as a mask; and burying the stripe-shaped structure with burying layers.
摘要:
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor optical device comprises forming a groove on a first semiconductor layer; forming a second semiconductor layer containing aluminum in the groove; forming a third semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; forming an insulating layer on the third semiconductor layer covering the region opposite the second semiconductor layer; forming a stripe-shaped structure by etching the first semiconductor layer and the third semiconductor layer without exposing the second semiconductor layers using the insulating layer as a mask; and burying the stripe-shaped structure with burying layers.
摘要:
An n-InP second upper cladding layer is laid on a p-InP lower cladding layer while an active layer having upper and lower boundary surfaces that are uniformly flat in an optical waveguide direction is interposed therebetween. A diffraction layer having a phase-shifted structure in the optical waveguide direction is interposed between the lower cladding layer and the active layer or between the second upper cladding layer and the active layer. The length L of the diffraction grating layer in the direction of the optical waveguide is L≦260 &mgr;m; a mean coupling factor &kgr; of a diffraction grating layer is &kgr;≧150 cm−1; and &kgr;L satisfies 5.6>&kgr;L>3.0.