Coherent light generators – Particular active media – Semiconductor
Reissue Patent
2005-01-04
2005-01-04
Tran, Minh Loan (Department: 2826)
Coherent light generators
Particular active media
Semiconductor
C372S050121, C372S096000, C372S099000, C372S046012, C257S098000
Reissue Patent
active
RE038682
ABSTRACT:
A edge emitting waveguide laser is obtained that derives its optical power from a vertical cavity laser structure. The vertical cavity laser with top and bottom Distributed Bragg Reflectors produces stimulated emission by resonance in the vertical direction but the optical power so generated is diffracted by a second order grating into an optical mode propagating in the optical waveguide formed by the upper and lower mirrors as cladding layers. The efficiency of the diffraction grating and the reflectivity of the mirrors are maximized so that essentially all of the light is coupled into the guide and the loss through the mirrors can be neglected. The same structure can be utilized as a detector, a modulator or an amplifier. The designated laser structure to achieve this form of operation is the inversion channel laser which is a laterally injected laser having both contacts on the top side of the device. Then the anode and cathode of the laser are essentially coplanar electrodes and the device is implemented in the form of a traveling wave laser, detector, modulator or amplifier which forms the basis for very high frequency performance.
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Gordon & Jacobson P.C.
Tran Minh Loan
University of Connecticut
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