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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1976
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1975
Joseph Martin Blum, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Eric Gung Lean, Mahopac, NY (US);
James Cleary McGroddy, Putnam Valley, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An injection laser, which is chemically etched to provide mirror-like surfaces, also is provided with a chirped diffraction grating. The latter grating, which is etched in the injection laser, combines with the chemically etched sides to provide laser emission in a direction substantially parallel to the current flowing through the laser. As an alternative to the chirped diffraction grating, waveguides are included in the resulting folded cavity laser. Either of the above structures relaxes the fabrication tolerance in the inclined surfaces etched in the laser relative to known folded cavity lasing structures.