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Red light laser

US7359421B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 7, 2007
Grant dateApr 15, 2008
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Expiry dateMar 7, 2027

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01S5/423
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A semiconductor material vertical cavity surface emitting laser for emitting narrow linewidth light comprising a compound semiconductor material substrate and pairs of semiconductor material layers in a first mirror structure on the substrate of a first conductivity type each differing from that other in at least one constituent concentration and each first mirror pair separated from that one remaining by a first mirror spacer layer with a graded constituent concentration. An active region on the first mirror structure has plural quantum well structures separated by at least one active region spacer layer and there is a second mirror structure on the active region similar to the first but of a second conductivity type. A pair of electrical interconnections is separated by said substrate, said first mirror structure, said active region and said second mirror structure.

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