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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 1989
Filed:
May. 20, 1988
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin and Munich, DE;
Abstract
A laser diode array includes ridges formed in a cover layer forming an upper layer of a semiconductor body, the ridges being provided with separate contacts to produce laser active stripes in an active layer situated between a substrate and the cover layer. The thickness of the cover layer between the ridges is such that lateral coupling is achieved, while the thickness of the cover layer in the region adjoining the outside edges of the outer ridges is small enough so that lateral emission losses are low as the result of quasi-index guidance based on the metal clad ridge waveguide principle. A second embodiment provides wave guidance at the outside edges of the outer ridges by a buried heterostructure principle.