摘要:
A tunable laser device includes a laser structure and a plurality of individually addressable, separated contact stripes disposed on the laser structure. The laser structure includes a substrate, an active portion disposed on the substrate, and a chirped distributed feedback (DFB) grating disposed on the active portion. The active portion includes at least top and bottom contact layers and a gain medium.
摘要:
Semiconductor lasers comprise a substrate; an active layer configured to generate transverse magnetic (TM) polarized light under an electrical bias; an upper cladding layer; a lower cladding layer; and a distributed feedback (DFB) grating defined by the interface of a layer of metal and a layer of semiconductor under the layer of metal, the interface periodically corrugated in the longitudinal direction of the laser with a periodicity of Λ DFB = mλ/(2 n eff ), wherein m > 1. The DFB grating is configured such that loss of one or more antisymmetric longitudinal modes of the laser structure via absorption to the DFB grating is sufficiently maximized so as to produce lasing of a symmetric longitudinal mode of the laser with laser emission characterized by a single-lobe beam along each direction defined by the grating diffraction orders corresponding to emission away from the plane of the grating.
摘要:
An apparatus comprising an optical medium, a power splitter coupled to the optical medium, a first delay line coupled to the power splitter such that the power splitter is positioned between the first delay line and the optical medium, a first comb reflector coupled to the first delay line such that the first delay line is positioned between the first comb reflector and the power splitter, and a second comb reflector coupled to the power splitter but not the first comb reflector and not the first delay line. A method comprising receiving an optical signal, splitting the optical signal into a first split optical signal and a second split optical signal, delaying the first split optical signal, tuning the delayed first split optical signal, tuning the second split optical signal, and delaying the tuned second split optical signal.
摘要:
A modulated laser system generally includes a light emission region, a modulation region having a plurality of semiconductive layers, at least one of which includes a quantum well layer having a variable energy bandgap, and an isolation region separating the light emission region and the modulation region. The laser may be an electro-absorption modulated laser, the light emission region may include a distributed feedback laser, and the modulation region may include an electro-absorption modulator. The laser may be manufactured by forming a lower semiconductive buffer layer on a substrate, an active layer including one or more quantum well layers having the variable energy bandgap on or above the lower semiconductive buffer layer, an upper semiconductive buffer layer on or above the active layer, a contact layer on or above the upper semiconductive buffer layer, and an isolation region separating the light emission region and the modulation region.
摘要:
A thermal shunt is to transfer heat from a sidewall of a device to a silicon substrate. The device is associated with a Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) including a buried oxide layer. The thermal shunt extends through the buried oxide layer to the silicon substrate.
摘要:
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to monolithic VCSEL arrays where each VCSEL can be configured to lase at a different wavelength. In one embodiment, a monolithic surface- emitting laser array includes a reflective layer, a light-emitting layer (102), and a grating layer ( 112) configured with two or more non- periodic, sub- wavelength gratings. Each grating is configured to form a resonant cavity with the reflector, and each grating is configured with a grating pattern that shapes one or more internal cavity modes and shapes one or more external transverse modes emitted through the grating.
摘要:
Vertical cavity light emitting sources that utilize patterned membranes as reflectors are provided. The vertical cavity light emitting sources have a stacked structure that includes an active region disposed between an upper reflector and a lower reflector. The active region, upper reflector and lower reflector can be fabricated from single or multi-layered thin films of solid states materials ("membranes") that can be separately processed and then stacked to form a vertical cavity light emitting source.
摘要:
Various embodiments of the present invention are related to microresonator systems that can be used as a laser, a modulator, and a photodetector and to methods for fabricating the microresonator systems. In one embodiment, a microresonator system (100) comprises a substrate (106) having a top surface layer (104), at least one waveguide (114,116) embedded within the substrate (106), and a microdisk (102) having a top layer (118), an intermediate layer (122), a bottom layer (120), current isolation region (128), and a peripheral annular region (124,126). The bottom layer (120) of the microdisk (102) is in electrical communication with the top surface layer (104) of the substrate (106) and is positioned so that at least a portion of the peripheral annular region (124,126) is located above the at least one waveguide (114,116). The current isolation region (128) is configured to occupy at least a portion of a central region of the microdisk and has a relatively lower refractive index and relatively larger bandgap than the peripheral annular region.