Abstract:
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor laser includes sequentially forming a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer on top of one another on a semiconductor substrate; forming a ridge in the second conductivity type semiconductor layer; forming a first insulating film on the second conductivity type semiconductor layer at a first temperature; forming a second insulating film on the first insulating film at a second temperature, lower than the first temperature; and forming an electrode on the second insulating film.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device has a two-dimensional slab photonic crystal structure in which a substrate supports a sheet-like slab layer including, sequentially stacked, a lower cladding layer, an active layer, and an upper cladding layer. A periodic refractive index profile structure, in surfaces of the stacked layers, introduces a linear defect region that serves as a waveguide. A p-type region and an n-type region in the slab layer define a pn junction surface at a predetermined angle with respect to the surfaces of the stacked layers in the slab layer.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device has a two-dimensional slab photonic crystal structure in which a substrate supports a sheet-like slab layer including, sequentially stacked, a lower cladding layer, an active layer, and an upper cladding layer. A periodic refractive index profile structure, in surfaces of the stacked layers, introduces a linear defect region that serves as a waveguide. A p-type region and an n-type region in the slab layer define a pn junction surface at a predetermined angle with respect to the surfaces of the stacked layers in the slab layer.
Abstract:
An optical waveguide ridge has a side with a flat portion extending uniformly from a top of the ridge to a surface of a semiconductor substrate, the flat portion being in contact with an exposed surface of the substrate. A p-type electrode extends from the top of the optical waveguide ridge downward in contact with a dielectric film on the flat portion of the optical waveguide ridge. The p-type electrode further extends over the dielectric film onto the exposed surface of the semiconductor substrate where an end of the electrode is a bonding pad.
Abstract:
A method of adjusting characteristics of a dielectric filter including the following steps: forming a dielectric filter having a dielectric body, the dielectric body having an outer surface; forming an external conductor on the outer surface of the dielectric body; and forming at least one hole extending through the dielectric body, the at least one hole having a respective inner surface, and a respective internal conductor and a respective non-conductive portion at the inner surface; the outer surface of the dielectric body comprising first and second end surfaces and a side surface extending between the first and second end surfaces; the at least one hole extending through the dielectric body between the first and second end surfaces; the respective inner conductor being formed as a respective pair of internal conductors conductively connected to the external conductor at respective ends of the at least one hole, the respective non-conductive portion at the inner surface of the at least one hole being spaced from both end surfaces, thereby separating the corresponding pair of internal conductors and defining a respective capacitance between the corresponding pair of internal conductors; and a predetermined portion of the outer surface of the dielectric body being formed with a shape such that a first portion of the external conductor at the predetermined portion of the outer surface is closer to at least one of the internal conductors in the at least one hole as compared with a second portion of the external conductor at a portion of the outer surface of the dielectric body other than the predetermined portion; the method further comprising the steps of: initially forming the respective inner conductor over an entire length of the inner surface of the corresponding hole; and thereafter grinding off a portion of the respective inner conductor with a grinding tool in order to form the non-conductive portion.
Abstract:
A small-sized low-loss dielectric resonator, dielectric filter, and dielectric duplexer, and a communication device using such an element. Through-holes are formed in a dielectric block. The inner surface of each through-hole is covered with a thin-film multilayer electrode consisting of an outermost conductive layer and a multilayer region including thin-film conductive layers and thin-film dielectric layers. An outer conductor having a similar thin-film multilayer electrode structure is formed on the outer surface of the dielectric block. An outer conductor in the form of a single-layer electrode is formed on a short-circuited end face of the dielectric block thereby connecting together the thin-film conductive layers of the inner and outer conductors.
Abstract:
The invention provides a filtering device of the transmission-reception switched type which can be constructed in a form with a reduced size at a low cost without having to use circuit elements such as a capacitor, a coil, and a transmission line forming a phase shift circuit which are not essential to the filtering device. Inner conductors serving as distributed-parameter resonance lines are formed in a dielectric block. There is provided a coupling line coupled with particular inner conductors. The open-circuited ends of these particular inner conductors are connected to an outer conductor via corresponding diode switches so that transmission and reception filters are switched from each other when either diode switch is selectively turned on.
Abstract:
A semiconductor optical device includes a semiconductor laser region for producing laser light and having a first optical waveguide mesa structure including a first active layer and a diffraction grating, and first current blocking layers adjacent to opposite sides; a light modulator region for modulating the laser light and having a second optical waveguide mesa structure continuous with the first optical waveguide mesa structure and including a second active layer, and second current blocking layers adjacent to opposite sides; and a window region for propagating the laser light modulated by the light modulator region and having a mesa-shaped window structure continuous with the second optical waveguide mesa structure, the mesa width of the window structure being larger than the mesa width of the second optical waveguide mesa structure. The light is prevented from leaking from the window and reaching the interface of the window structure and a burying layer adjacent to the window structure. The laser light is not reflected at the interface of the window structure and the buried layer. The shape of the beam of laser light emitted from the window structure is not distorted, resulting in a satisfactory connection to an optical system.
Abstract:
A dielectric filter is formed by a plurality of resonator holes which are formed in a single dielectric block in such a manner that they extend in a direction between an open-circuited end surface and a short-circuited end surface of the dielectric block. The resonator holes are opened only at the short-circuited end surface. An inner conductor is formed on an inner surface of each of the resonator holes. An outer conductor is formed on an outer surface of the dielectric block. Capacitor electrodes respectively corresponding to the resonator holes are formed on the open-circuited end surface of the dielectric block. Input/output electrodes electrically connected to the capacitor electrodes are formed in such a manner that they extend on both the open-circuited end surface and a bottom surface of the dielectric block. In this structure, since all the capacitive components constituting the filter can be obtained by either the capacitances formed between the capacitor electrodes and the inner conductors, or the capacitances formed in a gap between the capacitor electrodes, the dielectric filter can be constructed in the form of a single block.
Abstract:
Dielectric resonator wherein an internal conductor non-formed portion is provided near one open face of the internal conductor formed holes, and signal input, output electrodes are provided on one portion of the external conductor, whereby electromagnetic field leakage is restrained, because the open face is not formed, and individual parts such as signal input, output pins and so on are not required.