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Method for making a heterostructure semiconductor laser device by pressure cleaving of a cantilever structure

US4758532A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 2, 1987
Grant dateJul 19, 1988
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Expiry dateSep 2, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S148/095
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A semiconductor laser device comprises a substrate (7) formed of p type GaAs, a laser diode portion (10) capable of laser oscillation and a monitor photodiode portion (11) capable of photoelectric conversion formed on substrate (7). The laser diode portion (10) and the monitor photodiode portion (11) are both formed of an epitaxial separating layer (6) of p type AlAs, an epitaxial layer group (23) mainly formed of a material of AlGaAs system and an epitaxial window layer (9) formed on a cleavage plane of this epitaxial layer group (23). The cleavage plane of the epitaxial window layer (9) on the side of the laser diode portion (10) constitutes a laser resonator plane (16) for laser light output of said laser diode portion (10) while the cleavage plane of the epitaxial window layer (9) on the monitor photodiode portion (11) constitutes a light receiving plane (17) for receiving the laser light outputted from the laser resonator plane (16).

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