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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 1993
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1991
Won-Tien Tsang, Holmdel, NJ (US);
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
In accordance with the present invention a semiconductor laser is provided with a cavity having decreasing loss with increasing wavelength in order to reduce temperature dependence. Such decreasing loss canbe obtained by providing the laser cavity with reflecting means or gratings which favor longer wavelengths. Decreasing loss can be provided, for example, by provision of appropriate multilayer reflection coatings or by longitudinal gratings. The coatings advantageously have peak reflectivity centered at the lasing wavelength corresponding to maximum operating temperature. The result in long wavelength InGaAs lasers is an improvement in the threshold temperature coefficient from about 50K to about 85K. In addition, the improved lasers exhibited a decreased rate of quantum efficiency degradation with temperature.