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Optical semiconductor device

US6043515A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 16, 1997
Grant dateMar 28, 2000
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Expiry dateSep 16, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01S2301/173
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An optical semiconductor device has a structure in which a semiconductor active layer is sandwiched by a p-type semiconductor cladding layer and an n-type semiconductor cladding layer and a p-type contact layer is formed on the p-type semiconductor cladding layer side and an n-type contact layer is formed on the n-type semiconductor cladding layer side, wherein two ferromagnetic layers are formed on the n-type contact layer and two ferromagnetic layers are formed on the p-type contact layer. Magnetization directions of a pair of ferromagnetic layers vertically opposed to each other are set to be parallel to each other, and the magnetization directions of adjacent ferromagnetic layers are inverted to each other.

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