摘要:
A semiconductor laser array device comprising a substrate with a plurality of grooves and an active layer disposed over the substrate, resulting in optical waveguides within the active layer corresponding to the grooves, wherein the grooves are disposed over the entire area of the substrate and a means for preventing the injection of current into some of the grooves that are positioned outside of the central area of the substrate is disposed whereby the other grooves positioned in the central area of the substrate consitute a laser array portion of the semiconductor laser array device.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser array device with a waveguide structure comprising waveguides designed such that the widths thereof gradually increase from the center waveguide to the waveguides positioned at both sides of the array portions.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser array device comprising a substrate; an index-waveguiding area positioned on said substrate; a Fourier-converting area, which is adjacent to said waveguiding area and in which laser lights emitted with synchronized phases from said waveguiding area undergo the Fourier-conversion, positioned on said substrate; and a reflecting mirror, which is adjacent to said Fourier-converting area and by which said converted laser lights with a 0.degree.-phase shift mode are selectively reflected so as to be incident upon said waveguiding areas.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser array device comprising an optical waveguide which is in a single mode or a multiple mode in the center portion thereof and is in a branching mode at each of both end portions thereof to form a plurality of branching waveguides which are positioned symmetrically with respect to the waveguiding direction of the laser beams and which are parallel to each other near the facets, thereby oscillating laser beams with a 0.degree.-phase shift therebetween.
摘要:
A process for the production of semiconductor devices includes: (1) forming a thin semiconductor film containing no aluminum on a first semiconductor layer containing aluminum that is disposed on a substrate one or more (2) forming channels on said thin semiconductor film in such a manner that the channel or channels reach or go through said first semiconductor layer to expose a portion of said substrate, resulting in a channelled substrate for succeeding crystal growth thereon, and (3) producing by epitaxial growth crystalline layers on said channelled substrate by the use of a crystal growth solution having a supersaturation which is high enough to prevent said first semiconductor layer from undergoing meltback.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser array apparatus comprising a single substrate and a plurality of semiconductor laser devices that are disposed with a given pitch on the substrate, some of the semiconductor laser devices constituting laser devices of a laser oscillation-operating area of the semiconductor laser array apparatus and the other semiconductor laser devices constituting laser devices of the non-laser oscillation-operating areas that are positioned outside of the laser oscillation-operating area, wherein the oscillation threshold current level of at least one of the semiconductor laser devices of each of the non-laser oscillation-operating areas that is the closest to the laser oscillation-operating area is higher than those of the semiconductor laser devices of the laser oscillation-operating area.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser array device comprising an oscillation operating area provided with a plurality of first index-waveguides in a parallel manner and a non-oscillation operating area provided with a plurality of second index-waveguides in a parallel manner through which laser light produced in said oscillation operating area are guided through the waveguide from said oscillation operating area to the end facets of the second index-waveguides of said non-oscillation operating area, wherein the second index-waveguides are different in length between the adjacent waveguides and the end facet of each of the second index-waveguides does not function as a cavity facet of the laser but it functions as the light-emitting facet of the device.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser device comprising a first layer that is of a first conductivity type; a second layer that is disposed on the first layer, the second layer having a forbidden bandgap smaller than that of the first layer and having a refraction index larger than that of the first layer; a third layer that is of a second conductivity type; the third layer being disposed over the second layer, having a forbidden bandgap larger than that of the second layer, and having a refraction index smaller than that of the second layer; a fourth layer that functions as a quantum wall, the fourth layer being disposed between the second and third layers and the thickness of the fourth layer being the de Broglie's wavelength or less; and at least one striped mesa, the lower portion of which is constituted by the third layer, wherein the fourth layer has a forbidden bandgap that is larger than that of the energy of photons generated by the second layer, and moreover the fourth layer has the etching characteristics that are different from those of the third layer positioned just above the fourth layer.
摘要:
A semiconductor light-emitting apparatus comprising a semiconductor laser array device with a plurality of lasing filaments and a mode-mixing device with a striped optical waveguide that attains an optical phase-coupling with the semiconductor laser array device, whereby beams from the semiconductor laser array device are emitted from the light-emitting facet of the semiconductor light-emitting apparatus via the mode-mixing device, thereby attaining a near-field pattern with a minimized ripple rate on the optical intensity.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser array device with a waveguide structure comprising a first array portion which is composed of a plurality of parallel waveguides; a second array portion which is composed of a plurality of parallel waveguides; a third array portion which is composed of a plurality of symmetrically branching waveguides that optically connect the ends of the parallel waveguides of the first array portion; and a fourth array portion which is composed of a plurality of symmetrically branching waveguides that are optically connected to the other ends of the parallel waveguides of the second array portion, the ends of said symmetrically branching waveguides of the fourth array portion meeting one laser-emitting face of said laser array device at which said symmetrically branching waveguides begin to be optically combined with the adjacent symmetrically branching waveguides.