Semiconductor laser device

摘要

A semiconductor laser device of a new monolithic structure has a long transparent optical waveguide used as a passive cavity directly coupled with an active cavity possessing a gain in the direction of the optical axis of the active cavity on a compound semiconductor substrate. The device is intended to satisfy all four characteristics, which are; (1) stable single longitudinal mode oscillation; (2) narrow spectral linewidth; (3) suppression of wavelength chirping due to current modulation; and (4) low noise and to be applied as a light source for optical fiber communication, optical information processing or the like.