The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1998
Utpal Kumar Chakrabarti, Allentown, PA (US);
Richard W Glew, Breinigsville, PA (US);
Karen A Grim-Bogdan, Kutztown, PA (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murry Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A plurality of different wavelength semiconductor lasers are fabricated on a single semiconductor substrate by establishing a thermal gradient across the substrate during epitaxial growth. The result is a variation in composition which produces a corresponding variation of laser wavelength across the substrate. The thermal gradient is preferably achieved by disposing a patterned layer of material (heat reflecting or heat absorbing) on the back side of the substrate, radiatively heating the backside and growing the active layers on the front side. The backside layer is removed when the substrate is lapped to final thickness.