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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:
Jul. 20, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 13, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372 96 ; 372 45 ; 372 50 ; 372102 ;
Abstract
A diffraction grating includes first regions for mainly reflecting first polarized light and second regions for mainly reflecting second polarized light. The first regions and the second regions are alternately arranged in a light propagation direction in a variety of manners to appropriately set its polarization-mode dependency according to need. An optical semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a laser structure and that diffraction grating formed in the laser structure. The laser structure is a distributed feedback semiconductor laser structure or a distributed Bragg reflector semiconductor laser structure formed on the semiconductor substrate.