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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor laser device assembly capable of suppressing the occurrence of a problem that mode synchronous operation becomes unstable, and also capable of obtaining large output.SOLUTION: The semiconductor laser device assembly comprises: (A) mode synchronous semiconductor laser element 10; (B) an external resonator 120; (C) a band-pass filter 121 disposed between the mode synchronous semiconductor laser element 10 and the external resonator 120, and having its film thickness successively changed; and (D) a movement device 122 for moving the band-pass filter 121. Part of a laser beam colliding with the band-pass filter 121 is outputted to the outside, and the remainder of the laser beam colliding with the band-pass filter 121 passes through the band-pass filter 121 to enter the external resonator 121 and is reflected in the external resonator 121, and is returned to the mode synchronous semiconductor laser element 10 passing through the band-pass filter 122.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light-emitting element having a high output, which can radiate light beams having a single mode.SOLUTION: The light-emitting element comprises: (a) a laminated structure 20 including a first compound semiconductor layer 21 having a first conductivity type, an active layer 23 composed of a compound semiconductor and a second compound semiconductor layer 22 having a second conductivity type, which are sequentially laminated on a base substance 20'; (b) a second electrode 32; and (c) a first electrode 31. The laminated structure 20 has a ridge stripe structure 20A including a part in a thickness direction of at least the second compound semiconductor layer 22. The first compound semiconductor layer 21 has a thickness of more than 0.6 μm. The first compound semiconductor layer 21 includes a high refractive index layer 24 formed therein, composed of a compound semiconductor material having a refractive index higher than a refractive index of a compound semiconductor material composing the first compound semiconductor layer 21.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an optical amplifier capable of suppressing change in drive current and optical output with time.SOLUTION: An optical amplifying element 20 on a stem 10 is called a transparent type SOA and amplifies short-wavelength light having entered into an incidence side end face 20A to emit light having larger luminance than the incident light from an injection side end face 20B. Both the incidence side end face 20A and the injection side end face 20B of the optical amplifying element 20 have an anti-reflection film on its surface. The optical amplifying element 20 is sealed by the stem 10 and a cap 30. Light transparent windows 32 are provided on an opposite part of the incidence side end face 20A and the injection side end face 20B, respectively, in the cap 30.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing a semiconductor laser device accurately, surely and easily forming a second electrode and a ridge structure separated by a separating groove. SOLUTION: This method for manufacturing a bi-section GaN-based semiconductor laser device includes respective processes of: (A) forming a first compound semiconductor layer 30, a compound semiconductor layer 40 that constitutes a light-emitting region 41 and a saturable absorption region 42, and a second compound semiconductor layer 50; thereafter (B) forming a strip-shaped second electrode 62 on the second compound semiconductor layer 50; then (C) forming a ridge structure by etching at least a part of the second compound semiconductor layer 50 using the second electrode 62 as an etching mask; and thereafter (D) forming a separating groove 62C in the second electrode 62 by a wet etching method, and thereby separating the second electrode into a first portion 62A and a second portion 62B by the separating groove. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor laser which can perform sufficiently powerful self-pulsation operation without making the shape of a far-field image worse and stably obtain low-noise laser light, and is easy to manufacture. SOLUTION: The semiconductor laser having a ridge stripe 11 in a clad layer is provided with an insulating film 14 for current constriction on both side surfaces of the ridge stripe 11 and extendedly on bottom surfaces on both sides of the ridge stripe 11. The insulating film 14 for current constriction contains a high-refractive-index insulator, having a refractive index higher than an equivalent refractive index of a laser structure at the part of the ridge stripe 11, at a part other than parts nearby both resonator end surfaces. For example, a high-refractive-index insulating film 14a is formed on the bottom surfaces on both the sides of the ridge stripe 11. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a self-induced oscillating semiconductor laser which stably APC drives. SOLUTION: There is provided a semiconductor layer 20, which is formed of an n-type clad layer 21, an active layer 22, a p-type clad layer 23 that includes a stripe shaped embedded ridge portion 28, an n-type buffer layer 24, a p-type contact layer 25, an etching stop layer 26, and a gap layer 27, laminated in this order. In the semiconductor layer 20, an emission side reflection film 33 is formed on a front end face perpendicular to a direction in which the embedded ridge 28 extends, and reflectivity Rf of the front end face is adjusted so as to satisfy P2
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dispersion compensation optical device capable of being downsized.SOLUTION: A dispersion compensation optical device 120 is composed of a first transmission type volume hologram diffraction grating 121 and a second transmission type volume hologram diffraction grating 122 which are arranged facing each other. The sum of an incident angle φof laser beam and emission angle φof primary diffraction light is 90 degrees in respective transmission type volume hologram diffraction gratings 121, 122.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bi-section-type GaN-based semiconductor laser device with a configuration and a structure having a little occurrence of damage in a saturable absorption region.SOLUTION: A semiconductor laser device includes a stack of a second compound semiconductor layer and a third compound semiconductor layer constituting a light-emitting region and a saturable absorption region, and has a stacked structure having a ridge stripe structure, a second electrode, and a first electrode. The second electrode is isolated by an isolation trench into a first portion passing a DC current into the light-emitting region and a second portion for applying electric field to the saturable absorption region. On both sides of the ridge stripe structure, second compound semiconductor layer exposed regions are provided. 1
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an alignment method of a semiconductor optical amplifier capable of performing optimization of coupling efficiency of incident laser light and an optical waveguide of the semiconductor optical amplifier independently from an external monitoring device.SOLUTION: In an alignment method of a semiconductor optical amplifier 200 in which laser light from a laser light source 100 is optical-amplified and emitted, current of a predetermined value is applied to the semiconductor optical amplifier 200 while the laser light from the laser light source 100 is incident on the semiconductor optical amplifier 200, and the relative position of the semiconductor optical amplifier 200 for the laser light incident on the semiconductor optical amplifier 200 is adjusted so as to maximize the voltage applied to the semiconductor optical amplifier 200.