Abstract:
A single-mode, etched facet distributed Bragg reflector laser includes an AlGaInAs/InP laser cavity, a front mirror stack with multiple Fabry-Perot elements, a rear DBR reflector, and a rear detector. The front mirror stack elements and the rear reflector elements include input and output etched facets, and the laser cavity is an etched ridge cavity, all formed from an epitaxial wafer by a two-step lithography and CAIBE process.
Abstract:
A laser module includes a semiconductor laser element and a feedback optical component forming an external cavity with the semiconductor laser element. Even if a ratio of a current threshold of the laser module changing according to a polarized state of returned light from the feedback optical component to a current threshold of the semiconductor laser element is in an arbitrary range within a predetermined range, a total value of a relative intensity noise occurring between a first frequency determined according to a cavity length of the external cavity and at least equal to or more than a frequency band of using a laser light and a second frequency calculated by multiplying the first frequency by a predetermined number is equal to or more than −40 dB.
Abstract:
A semiconductor laser device includes a layer structure of a first conductive cladding layer, an active layer, and a second conductive cladding layer sequentially grown on a first conductive semiconductor substrate; and a light emitting facet from which a laser beam having a first wavelength is emitted. Refractive indexes of the first and the second conductive cladding layers with respect to the first wavelength are lower than an effective refractive index with respect to the first wavelength. With respect to a light having a second wavelength incident on the light emitting facet from outside, the refractive index of at least one of the first and the second conductive cladding layers is equal to or higher than the effective refractive index with respect to the second wavelength.
Abstract:
An optical device includes a block of optical material. The block includes a first and second end face, and a portion of the first end face includes at least one convex arcuate portion.
Abstract:
A semiconductor laser device includes a layer structure of a first conductive cladding layer, an active layer, and a second conductive cladding layer sequentially grown on a first conductive semiconductor substrate; and a light emitting facet from which a laser beam having a first wavelength is emitted. Refractive indexes of the first and the second conductive cladding layers with respect to the first wavelength are lower than an effective refractive index with respect to the first wavelength. With respect to a light having a second wavelength incident on the light emitting facet from outside, the refractive index of at least one of the first and the second conductive cladding layers is equal to or higher than the effective refractive index with respect to the second wavelength.
Abstract:
A semiconductor laser device emitting a laser beam having stable emitting wavelength and a multimode spectrum is provided. The semiconductor laser device is a Fabry-Perot type semiconductor laser device having a layer structure including an active layer of a quantum well structure, and emitting a laser beam having wavelength stabilized by an action of return light and having a multimode spectrum, wherein each well layer satisfies relation: Γ/d≦1.3×10−3 nm−1 where Γ and d(nm) are an optical confinement factor and a thickness of a well layer, respectively.
Abstract:
A semiconductor laser of this invention, having a structure of an element composed of: carrier block layers, formed bilaterally externally of an active layer in section which is formed in the vertical direction from the surface of the element, for reducing a light guiding function of the active layer; wave guide layers provided bilaterally externally of said carrier block layers and clad layers provided so that the wave guide layers are sandwiched in between the clad layers. This invention overcomes a dilemma inherent in the conventional weakly guiding laser and LOC structured laser in terms of designing the device for controlling a guided mode. The present invention also solves the problems in terms of attaining higher outputting and a low dispersion of the radiation beams and improving a beam profile.
Abstract:
A semiconductor laser of this invention, having a structure of an element composed of: carrier block layers, formed bilaterally externally of an active layer in section which is formed in the vertical direction from the surface of the element, for reducing a light guiding function of the active layer; wave guide layers provided bilaterally externally of said carrier block layers and clad layers provided so that the wave guide layers are sandwiched in between the clad layers. This invention overcomes a dilemma inherent in the conventional weakly guiding laser and LOC structured laser in terms of designing the device for controlling a guided mode. The present invention also solves the problems in terms of attaining higher outputting and a low dispersion of the radiation beams and improving a beam profile.
Abstract:
A hole-burning material which comprises at least one hole which is formed on a zero-phonone line and semi-permanently lasts without suffering from any change in the temperature range from 2 to 120 K. and which can be erased by irradiation of excited light having an energy larger than the zero-phonone line, in which the burnt holes have long life and deep depth and any single holes can be erased.
Abstract:
A single-mode, etched facet distributed Bragg reflector laser includes an AlGaInAs/InP laser cavity, a front mirror stack with multiple Fabry-Perot elements, a rear DBR reflector, and a rear detector. The front mirror stack elements and the rear reflector elements include input and output etched facets, and the laser cavity is an etched ridge cavity, all formed from an epitaxial wafer by a two-step lithography and CAIBE process.