Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Yasushi Matsui

Nobuyuki Otsuka

Masato Ishino

Masahiro Kitoh

Masahiro Kito

Shinji Nakamura

Hiroyuki Sasai

Kenichi Matsuda

Satoshi Kamiyama

Jun Ohya

Kuniaki Utsumi

Hideaki Takechi

Shigeru Yamane

Yuichi Inaba

Hisashi Nakayama

Naoki Takenaka

Manabu Tanabe

A semiconductor laser device includes a substrate, a p-type cladding layer and a n-type cladding layer provided on the substrate, and an active layer provided between the p-type cladding layer and the n-type cladding layer, having at least two barrier layers and at least two well layers, the barrier layers and the well layers being disposed alternately. Band offsets in a conduction band between the barrier layers and the well layers are provided so as to increase from the n-type cladding layer aide toward the p-type cladding layer side.

Semiconductor laser device

The semiconductor laser device of the present invention includes a GaAs substrate and a multi-layer structure formed on the GaAs substrate. The multi-layer structure includes an active layer for emitting light. The active layer includes an InN,As,P,(where 0<x<1 and 0&lE;y<1) layer that is lattice-matched with the GaAs substrate.

Semiconductor laser device, optical communication system using the same, and method for producing compound semiconductor

In a distributed feedback semiconductor laser includes an InP substrate and a multiple layer structure formed on a main surface of the InP substrate, the multiple layer structure includes at least an active layer for emitting laser light and a periodical structure for distributed feedback of the laser light, and the periodical structure includes a plurality of semiconductor regions each having a triangular cross section in a direction perpendicular to the main surface of the InP substrate and parallel to a cavity length of the distributed feedback semiconductor laser, the triangular cross section projecting toward the InP substrate.

Distributed feedback semiconductor laser and method for producing the

The semiconductor laser of the invention includes: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type; a stripe-shaped multilayer structure, formed on the semiconductor substrate, the stripe-shaped multilayer structure including an active layer; and a current blocking portion formed on the semiconductor substrate on both sides of the stripe-shaped multilayer structure, wherein the current blocking portion has a first current blocking layer of a second conductivity type, and a second current blocking layer of the first conductivity type formed on the first current blocking layer, the first current blocking layer includes a low-concentration region having a relatively low concentration of an impurity of the second conductivity type, and a high-concentration region having an impurity concentration which is higher than that of the low-concentration region, and the low-concentration region is provided at a position closer to the stripe-shaped multilayer structure than the high-concentration region.

Method for producing semiconductor laser

Semiconductor laser and process for producing the same

A distributed feedback semiconductor laser which includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductive type; a semiconductor multi-layer structure provided on the semiconductor substrate and including an active layer for generating laser light; and a gain-coupled diffraction grating provided between the semiconductor substrate and the semiconductor multi-layer structure. The diffraction grating includes a plurality of curved projections periodically arranged at a surface of the semiconductor substrate and a quantum well light absorption layer for covering the plurality of curved projections. The quantum well light absorption layer includes a light absorption area having a first thickness at each border between two adjacent curved projections and a non-light absorption area having a second thickness which is smaller than the first thickness at a top of each of the curved projections. The light absorption area has a band gap which is narrower than a band gap of the active layer, and the non-light absorption area has a band gap which is wider than the band gap of the active layer.

Method distributed feedback semiconductor laser for fabricating

Method for producing a semiconductor laser

An electro-absorption optical modulator, where a waveguide length of the absorption layer is denoted by L, a light confinement coefficient thereof is denoted by .GAMMA., and a performance factor of the absorption layer at an applied voltage V to an absorption layer is denoted by K(V), has design parameters selected so that a relationship .vertline.K(V)-.GAMMA..multidot.L.vertline. .ltoreq.0.005 cm is satisfied in a continuous operation range of a quenching ration T.sub.Att. The waveguide length L is preferably optimizrd so as to satisfy K(V).apprxeq..GAMMA..multidot.L in the operation range.

Electro-absorption optical modulator and method for fabricating the same

Distributed feedback semiconductor laser and method for fabricating the

The semiconductor laser device of the invention includes: a strained quantum well structure including a well layer and a barrier layer, and a semiconductor substrate for supporting the strained quantum well structure. In the semiconductor laser device, at least one of the well layer and the barrier layer is composed of a mixed crystal where an atomic ordering is generated.

Semiconductor laser device and method for fabricating the same and

A multi quantum well semiconductor laser includes an InP substrate and a multi-layered structure formed on the InP substrate, lasing at 1.29 .mu.m to 1.33 .mu.m wavelength, wherein the multi-layered structure includes at least a multi quantum well active layer, the multi quantum well active layer including InGaAsP well layers and InGaAsP barrier layers alternately provided, the InGaAsP barrier layers are lattice matched with the InP substrate, and a bandgap wavelength of the InGaAsP barrier layers is substantially equal to 1.05 .mu.m.

Multi quantum well semiconductor laser and optical communication system

Semiconductor laser and method for producing the same

Distributed feedback semiconductor laser

Herein disclosed is a vapor growth system, in which the number of dummy lines is reduced to decrease the number of lines led into a valve system, thereby enabling thin film growth having a good interfacial steepleness. The system comprising gas supplying lines A70, B71 and C72, which are made up of AsH.sub.3 process gas lines A62, B65, C68 and balance lines A61, B64 and C67, respectively. The balance lines A61, B64 and C67 contributes equalization of products of the viscosity and the flow rate in the gas supplying lines A70, B71 and C72, and the dummy line 60. Only when AsH.sub.3 (A), AsH.sub.3 (B) and AsH.sub.3 gases are not fed upon formation of the film growth, the dummy line 60 is connected to the main line. Whereby, the system is free from pressure fluctuation of the gas in the main line, with an arrangement of even a single dummy line.

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Neyagawa, Japan

Yasushi Matsui