US5311539A
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Roughened sidewall ridge for high power fundamental mode semiconductor ridge waveguide laser operation
Assignee: GlobalFoundries Inc
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Filing: 1992-11-25
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Granted: 1994-05-10
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Expires: 2012-11-25
Abstract
Abstract A semiconductor ridge waveguide laser structure with a roughened sidewall ridge that includes a substrate and an active layer disposed between lower and upper cladding layers. The structure further includes a waveguide ridge which comprises a contact layer and a trapezoidal ridge portion 16 of the upper cladding layer. The trapezoidal ridge portion has roughened sidewalls which provides low contact resistance.
Inventors
- 👤 Abbas Behfar-Rad
- 👤 Mark E. Jost
- 👤 Christoph S. Harder
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-28 23:03
CPC Classifications
H; H01; H01S; H01S5/00; H01S5/20; H01S5/22; B; B82; B82Y; B82Y20/00; G; G02; G02B; G02B6/00; G02B6/10; G02B6/12; G02B6/122; H01S5/2205; H01S5/30; H01S5/34; H01S5/343; H01S5/34313; H01S5/3432
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim
87 words
A semiconductor ridge waveguide structure comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a first cladding layer disposed on said substrate; an active layer disposed on said first cladding layer a second cladding layer disposed on said active layer, said second cladding layer including a raised ridge section extending on said second cladding layer, said ridge section having a trapezoidal cross-section with sloping sides 5 micrometers or less distance apart that have a roughened surface to prevent non-fundamental Fabry-Perot modes from occurring; and a contact layer disposed on said ridge section.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
87 words
A semiconductor ridge waveguide structure comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a first cladding layer disposed on said substrate; an active layer disposed on said first cladding layer a second cladding layer disposed on said active layer, said second cladding layer including a raised ridge section extending on said second cladding layer, said ridge section having a trapezoidal cross-section with sloping sides 5 micrometers or less distance apart that have a roughened surface to prevent non-fundamental Fabry-Perot modes from occurring; and a contact layer disposed on said ridge section.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
25 words
A semiconductor ridge waveguide structure according to claim 1 wherein said roughened sides of said ridge section form a corrugated surface of peaks and furrows.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
69 words
A semiconductor ridge waveguide structure according to claim 2 wherein said peaks and furrows in said sides of said ridge section extend from the top of said ridge sides to the bottom of said ridge sides, wherein said peaks are approximately one micrometer or less high and wherein the said 5 micrometers or less width of said ridge piece periodically varies in thickness by approximately two micrometers or less.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
55 words
A semiconductor ridge waveguide laser structure according to claim 3 wherein the larger ridge width between said peaks of said sidewalls enables low resistance ohmic contacts to be provided, and the smaller width of said ridge portion between said furrows enables relatively high power fundamental Fabry-Perot mode operation and prevents non-fundamental Fabry-Perot modes from occurring.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
50 words
A semiconductor ridge waveguide laser structure according to claim 4 wherein said substrate is composed of GaAs, said first and second buffer layers are composed of AlGaAs, said active region is composed of a quantum well sandwiched by graded regions of AlGaAs and said contact layer is composed of GaAs.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
45 words
A semiconductor ridge waveguide laser structure according to claim 4 wherein said peaks and furrows of said sides of said ridge section are formed by proximity printing a pattern of ridges and furrows on said sides by a photolithographic mask and etching through said mask.
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