Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

501 Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha

Masahiro Yamaguchi

Taiji Morimoto

Shinji Kaneiwa

Hidenori Kawanishi

Hiroshi Hayashi

Mototaka Taneya

Sadayoshi Matsui

Mitsuhiro Matsumoto

Toshihiko Yoshida

A semiconductor laser device comprising an active layer that constitutes a laser-oscillating resonator, and an inner-striped channel in the resonating direction, light from the active layer being absorbed at both edges of the striped channel, resulting in an optical waveguide within the active layer, wherein the amount of light to be absorbed at both edges of the striped channel in the vicinity of at least one of the light-emitting facets is smaller than that to be absorbed at both edges of the striped channel inside of the light-emitting facets.

Semiconductor laser device

A semiconductor laser device comprises a substrate and a multi-layered crystal structure with an active layer for laser-oscillating operation, the multi-layered crystal structure being disposed on the substrate and having a striped channel area through which current is supplied to the active layer and a light-absorbing area positioned outside of the channeled area by which a difference between the amount of light to be absorbed inside of the channeled area and the amount of light to be absorbed outside of the channeled area is created, which causes a difference in the effective refractive index of the active layer, resulting in an optical waveguide in the active layer, wherein the active layer is flat and uniform and the width of the portion of the channel area in the vicinity of at least one facet is wider than that of the remaining portion of the channel area.

Semiconductor laser device which is stable for a long period of time

An integrated semiconductor laser device comprising a plurality of semiconductor laser device elements, at least one of which has a means for preventing the injection of current in the vicinity of one facet or both facets.

Integrated semiconductor laser device

A semiconductor laser device comprises a p-type semiconductor substrate and a multi-layered crystal structure with an active layer for laser-oscillating operation, the multi-layered crystal structure being disposed on the substrate and having a striped channel area through which current is supplied to the active layer and a light-absorbing area positioned outside of the channeled area by which a difference between the amount of light to be absorbed inside of the channeled area and the amount of light to be absorbed outside of the channeled area is created, which causes a difference in the effective refractive index of the active layer, resulting in an optical waveguide in the active layer, wherein the light-absorbing area is constituted by an n-type semiconductor substance, but a portion of the n-type semiconductor substance positioned in the vicinity of at least one of both facets is replaced by a p-type semiconductor substance.

Semiconductor laser device having extended facet life

An index guided semiconductor laser device comprising a striped optical waveguide in the active layer, at least a part of the wavegide having continuous indentations at the interface between the waveguide and the outside of the waveguide, whereby only laser light of a high-order transverse mode is radiated from the waveguide to the outside of the waveguide and only laser light of the fundamental transverse mode is propagated within the waveguide.

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Masahiro Yamaguchi