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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:
Nov. 10, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359344 ;
Abstract
In a semiconductor optical amplifier device comprising a semiconductor laser section and a semiconductor optical amplifier both of which are formed on the same semiconductor substrate and which are coupled to each other, the semiconductor optical amplifier comprises a tapered electrode formed on an upper surface thereof. The tapered electrode is divided into a plurality of divided electrodes by at least one of dividing sections which extends along a propagation direction of an incident laser beam. The plurality of divided electrodes are supplied with injection currents which are variable in each of the plurality of divided electrodes.