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Semiconductor laser device

US4426702A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 15, 1981
Grant dateJan 17, 1984
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Expiry dateJul 15, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01S5/2275
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

This invention consists in improvements in a buried-heterostructure laser with buried optical guide, and facilitates the oscillation of the laser in the fundamental mode thereof and also enhances the available percentage of production of the laser. An active layer and an optical guide layer are sandwiched between two cladding layers, to form an optical confinement region. The width of the semiconductor material assembly varies in the direction of the stacked layers, and the narrowest part thereof is located on a side opposite to the optical guide layer with reference to the position of the active layer. The side surface of said semiconductor material assembly parallel to the traveling direction of laser radiation is buried by a burying layer.

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