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Semiconductor laser device having chip-mounted heating element

US5488625A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 5, 1993
Grant dateJan 30, 1996
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Expiry dateOct 5, 2013

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01S5/4056
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A semiconductor device includes a chip, a laser element formed on the chip and a heating element formed on the chip. The laser element is driven to emit a laser beam upon light-on of a laser. Upon light-off of a laser, switching is made so that the heating element is driven so as not to emit the laser beam in the normal laser beam emission direction by the laser element.

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