Arrangement for damping the resonance in a laser diode

Coherent light generators – Particular active media – Semiconductor

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357 17, 357 40, 357 46, 372 46, 372 38, H01S 319

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ABSTRACT:
An arrangement for damping the resonance in a laser diode includes an additional layer (25) which together with the conventional laser diode form a structure (35) of a bipolar transistor. Therein, the additional layer serves as the collector, the cladding layer (12) next to it as the base, and the active region (11) and the other cladding layer (13) as the emitter. A capacitor (30) is connected across the base and the collector. It is chosen so that at any frequency above a certain selected frequency (f.sub.c) which is far below the resonance frequency (f.sub.res) the capacitor impedance is very low, effectively shorting the base to the collector.

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