Abstract:
A surface emitting laser includes a first reflecting mirror; a second reflecting mirror; an active region between the first reflecting mirror and the second reflecting mirror. The first reflecting mirror and the second reflecting mirror each include a plurality of low refractive-index layers having a first refractive index; and a plurality of high refractive-index layers having a second refractive index higher than the first refractive index. The plurality of low refractive-index layers and the plurality of high refractive-index layers are alternated one after another. The plurality of high refractive-index layers of the first reflecting mirror includes a first layer; and a second layer having a higher thermal diffusion property in an in-plane direction than the first layer.
Abstract:
A surface emitting includes: an active layer; multiple reflectors facing each other with the active layer therebetween; and an electrode pair coupled to a power supply device and configured to inject current into the active layer. The surface emitting laser has: a current injection period in which the current is injected by the power supply device to oscillate no laser beam; and a current decrease period after the current injection period, in which a current value of the current injected into the active layer is lower than a current value of the current injected during the current injection period, to oscillate a laser beam.
Abstract:
A surface-emitting laser array includes a substrate and a sub-arrays disposed on the substrate, the sub-arrays including a surface-emitting laser devices electrically connected to each other in parallel to emit light through the substrate, each of the surface-emitting laser devices having a light-emitting point and including a first semi-conducting layer of first conductivity. The laser array further includes a second semi-conducting layer of second conductivity, and a resonator disposed between the first semi-conducting layer and the second semi-conducting layer. The sub-arrays adjacent to each other include an electrode to electrically connect the first semi-conducting layer in the surface-emitting laser devices included in one of the sub-arrays and the second semi-conducting layer.
Abstract:
A disclosed surface-emitting laser element includes a substrate, multiple semiconductor layers stacked on the substrate including a resonator structure including an active layer, a semiconductor multilayer mirror on the resonator structure, and a confined structure where a current passage region is enclosed by at least an oxide generated by oxidation of part of a selective oxidation layer containing aluminum, an electrode provided around an emission region, and a dielectric film provided in a peripheral portion within the emission region and outside a central portion of the emission region to make a reflectance of the peripheral portion lower than that of the central portion. The dielectric film is arranged such that a reflectance of a high-order transverse mode in a second direction is higher than that in a first direction, and a width of the current passage region in the first direction is greater than that in the second direction.
Abstract:
A disclosed surface-emitting laser module includes a surface-emitting laser formed on a substrate to emit light perpendicular to its surface, a package including a recess portion in which the substrate having the surface-emitting laser is arranged, and a transparent substrate arranged to cover the recess portion of the package and the substrate having the surface-emitting laser such that the transparent substrate and the package are connected on a light emitting side of the surface-emitting laser. In the surface-emitting laser module, a high reflectance region and a low reflectance region are formed within a region enclosed by an electrode on an upper part of a mesa of the surface-emitting laser, and the transparent substrate is slanted to the surface of the substrate having the surface-emitting laser in a polarization direction of the light emitted from the surface-emitting laser determined by the high reflectance region and the low reflectance region.
Abstract:
An atomic oscillator includes a gas cell and a plurality of components. The plurality of components includes a temperature control device for the gas cell; an excitation light source that emits excitation light to excite atoms enclosed in the gas cell; a temperature control device for the excitation light source; and a light receiving element that detects the excitation light that passes through the gas cell. The plurality of components is mounted on an insulating film having wiring.