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Semiconductor laser device

Assignee: Sharp Corp
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Filing: 1988-04-27
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Granted: 1989-08-29
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Expires: 2008-04-27
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Abstract

Abstract A semiconductor laser device comprising an active layer, optical guiding layers sandwiching the active layer therebetween, and a cladding layer disposed on each of the optical guiding layers, wherein the refractive index of each of the optical guiding layers gradually varies in the direction of the thickness of the optical guiding layer, and the thickness of each of the cladding layers is 0.5 um or less.

Inventors

  • 👤 Takahiro Suyama
  • 👤 Kosei Takahashi
  • 👤 Masafumi Kondo
  • 👤 Toshiro Hayakawa

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
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CPC Classifications
B; B82; B82Y; B82Y20/00; H; H01; H01S; H01S5/00; H01S5/30; H01S5/34; H01S5/20; H01S5/2004; H01S5/3409; H01S5/343; H01S5/34313; H01S5/3432

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim 68 words
In a semiconductor laser device comprising an active layer, optical guiding layers sandwiching said active layer therebetween, and a cladding layer disposed on each of said optical guiding layers, the device wherein the refractive index of each of said optical guiding layers gradually increases in the direction away from said active layer substantially identically, and the thickness of each of said cladding layers is 0.5 um or less.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 68 words
In a semiconductor laser device comprising an active layer, optical guiding layers sandwiching said active layer therebetween, and a cladding layer disposed on each of said optical guiding layers, the device wherein the refractive index of each of said optical guiding layers gradually increases in the direction away from said active layer substantially identically, and the thickness of each of said cladding layers is 0.5 um or less.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 20 words
A semiconductor laser device according to claim 1, wherein said active layer has a thickness of 0.1 μm or less.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 34 words
A semiconductor laser device according to claim 1, wherein each of said cladding layers is made of Al x Ga 1-x As and the AlAs mole fraction X is set at 0.45 or more.

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