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 infrared emitting device for use in the 2 to 3 .mu.m region, which is low in the threshold current and operates over a wide temperature range. In accordance with the present invention, an InP substrate is employed in place of GaSb substrate and InAs substrate heretofore employed for the 2 to 3 .mu.m infrared semiconductor lasers. Moreover, as active layers or clad layers, one of more semiconductor layers are employed which differ in lattice constant from the InP substrate.
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 avalanche photodiode with a quantum well layer in which a thin film, periodic multilayer structure composed of two different semiconductors is formed in a carrier multiplying region, the effective ionization coefficient ratio of carriers is raised by a quantum well layer formed by the thin film, multilayer periodic structure, and only electrons of large ionization coefficient are injected into the multiplying region, thereby to reduce noise in the APD.
摘要:
A semiconductor device, which is formed by a sequential lamination of a first semiconductor layer having a carrier concentration more than 10.sup.17 cm.sup.-3, a second semiconductor layer having a carrier concentration less than 10.sup.16 cm.sup.-3, a third semiconductor layer having a carrier concentration more than 10.sup.17 cm.sup.-3 and a thickness less than 300 .ANG., a fourth semiconductor layer having a carrier concentration less than 10.sup.16 cm.sup.-3, and a fifth semiconductor layer having a carrier concentration more than 10.sup.17 cm.sup.-3 and, in which the first and fifth semiconductor layers are the same in conductivity type and the third semiconductor layer is different in conductivity type from the fifth semiconductor layer. In accordance with the present invention, the energy gap of the third semiconductor layer is larger than the energy gaps of the second and fourth semiconductor layers. An annular region of a semi-insulating material or of the same conductivity type as that of the third semiconductor layer may be formed around an active region to extend from the fifth semiconductor layer to the second semiconductor layer.
摘要:
A method for manufacturing diffraction grating, in which after forming, on a substrate, one of a negative type photoresist film (an N film) and a positive type photoresist film (a P film) to cover a first region A and the other of the negative type photoresist film and the positive type photoresist film, or the latter film on the former one to cover a second region B, the first region and the second region are subjected to two-beam interference exposure, thereby forming a diffraction grating in which corrugations in the first region and the second region are reverse in phase to each other, through utilization of characteristics of the negative type photoresist film and the positive type photoresist film. Another feature of the present invention resides in that after forming, on a substrate, a structure in which a negative type photoresist film (an N film) is formed to cover only a first region A and the negative type photoresist film is formed on a positive type photoresist film (a P film) to cover a second region B, the first region and the second region of the substrate are subjected to two-beam interference exposure, thereby forming a diffraction grating in which corrugations in the first region and the second region are reverse in phase to each other, through utilization of characteristics of the negative type photoresist film and the positive type photoresist film.
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:
A distributed feedback semiconductor laser, in which the periodic corrugations in the first region and the second region of the light emitting region of the DFB laser have different lengths or depths to make the intensities of the Bragg reflection of the first region and the second region different from each other, thereby obtaining asymmetrical light outputs from the both sides of the DFB laser.
摘要:
A distributed feedback semiconductor laser which has periodic corrugations formed in a light emitting layer or an adjoining layer to extend in the direction of travel of light. A window region formed by a semiconductor layer larger in energy gap than the light emitting layer is provided on the extension line of one end of a laser region formed in the light emitting layer. The length of the window region is so limited as to prevent substantial reflection of laser output light in the window region. The end face of the laser on the opposite side from the window region is coated with a film for increasing reflectivity.
摘要:
A distributed feedback semiconductor laser which has periodic corrugations in a light emitting layer or an adjoining layer in the direction of travel of light and performs laser oscillation by the injection of carriers into said light emitting layer. In accordance with the present invention, there are provided, in the neighborhood of the center of a laser region, a region for changing the phase of the periodic corrugations by about 180 degrees, and, on the extension of the laser oscillation region at both sides thereof, a window region formed of a semiconductor larger in energy gap but smaller in refractive index than the light emitting layer, the length of the window region being so limited as to prevent substantial reflection of laser output light in the window region.