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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 1997
Filed:
Nov. 08, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 45 ;
Abstract
The present invention gives rise to a 1.3 .mu.m tensile-strained quantum well laser having a quantum well active layer which can be structurally specified as In.sub.1-x Ga.sub.x As.sub.y P.sub.1-y with X between 0.42 and 0.55 and Y between 0.8 and 0.75. The InGaAsP active layer needs to have a tensile stress between 1.0 and 1.5% and can be fabricated without any substantial phase-separation between InP and GaAs. The 1.3 .mu.m tensile-strained quantum well laser is equipped with a remarkably meager threshold current density of less than 0.2 kA/cm.sup.2. The preferable tensile strain ranges between from 1.2 to 1.4% or thereabout.