Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090154514 | OPTICAL AMPLIFIER-INTEGRATED SUPER LUMINESCENT DIODE AND EXTERNAL CAVITY LASER USING THE SAME - Provided is a super luminescent diode having low power consumption due to low threshold current and a high output power in low-current operation, which is suitable for an external cavity laser. The super luminescent diode for use in the external cavity laser is divided into a super luminescent diode (SLD) region and a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) region to provide a light source having a low threshold current and a nearly double output power of a conventional SLD. | 06-18-2009 |
20100238962 | EXTERNAL CAVITY LASER LIGHT SOURCE - Provided is an external cavity laser light source. The light source includes a substrate, an optical waveguide, and a current blocking layer. The optical waveguide includes a passive waveguide layer, a lower clad layer, an active layer, and an upper clad layer that are sequentially stacked on the substrate and is divided into regions including a linear active waveguide region, a bent active waveguide region, a tapered waveguide region, and a window region. The current blocking layer was formed an outside of the active layer to reduce leakage current. The linear and bent active waveguide regions have a buried heterostructure (BH), and the tapered waveguide region and the window region have a buried ridge stripe (BRS) structure. The passive waveguide layer a width substantially equal to a maximal width of the tapered waveguide region at least in the bent active waveguide region, the tapered waveguide region, and the window region. | 09-23-2010 |
20120307857 | SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND WAVELENGTH-TUNABLE EXTERNAL CAVITY LASER INCLUDING THE SAME - Provided are a high-speed superluminescent diode, a method of manufacturing the same, and a wavelength-tunable external cavity laser including the same. The superluminescent diode includes a substrate having an active region and an optical mode size conversion region, waveguides including an ridge waveguide in the active region and a deep ridge waveguide in the optical mode size conversion region connected to the active waveguide, an electrode disposed on the ridge waveguide; planarizing layers disposed on sides of the ridge waveguide and the deep ridge waveguide on the substrate, and a pad electrically connected to the electrode, the pad being disposed on the planarizing layers outside the active waveguide. | 12-06-2012 |
20130163621 | EXTERNAL CAVITY TUNABLE LASER MODULE - Disclosed is an external cavity tunable laser module including a substrate; a mirror surface that is formed on the substrate to reflect a laser incoming from the outside; a transmissive liquid crystal filter that is formed at a rear side of the mirror surface to select and tune a wavelength of the laser reflected through the mirror surface; and a light source chip that is formed at a rear side of the transmissive liquid crystal filter to reflect the laser that passes through the transmissive liquid crystal filter at a specific wavelength interval to form a plurality of channels and tune wavelengths of the channels. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163993 | DIRECTLY-COUPLED WAVELENGTH-TUNABLE EXTERNAL CAVITY LASER - Disclosed is a directly-coupled wavelength-tunable external cavity laser including a gain medium that generates an optical signal by an applied bias current; an optical waveguide structure that is coupled to the gain medium to form a minor surface and causes lasing in the mirror surface when the applied bias current has a threshold or higher; and a radio frequency transmission medium that adds a radio frequency signal to the applied bias current to adjust an operating speed of the optical signal. | 06-27-2013 |
20130243013 | TUNABLE LASER MODULE - The present disclosure relates to a tunable laser module including a light gain area unit for outputting an optical signal; an optical distributor for separating the optical signal output from the light gain area unit; two comb reflection units for reflecting a part of optical signals separated by the optical distributor and allow a part of the optical signals to penetrate; two phase units for changing phases of the optical signals penetrating the two comb reflection units; an optical coupler for combining the optical signals of which the phases are changed by the two phase units; and an optical amplifier for amplifying the optical signal combined by the optical coupler, wherein the light gain area unit oscillates a laser by totally reflecting the optical signals reflected by the two comb reflection units. | 09-19-2013 |
20130287054 | DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK-LASER DIODES - Distributed feedback-laser diodes are provided. The distributed feedback-laser diode may include a substrate, a lower cladding layer having a grating on the substrate, an active layer disposed on the lower cladding layer, a first upper cladding layer disposed on the active layer, a phase-shift region extending in a first direction on the first upper cladding layer, and a ridge waveguide layer extending in a second direction crossing the first direction on the phase-shift region. | 10-31-2013 |
20140064306 | COMPACT EXTERNAL CAVITY TUNABLE LASER APPARATUS - The present disclosure relates to a compact external cavity tunable laser apparatus. The laser apparatus includes a substrate, an external cavity tunable reflecting unit that reflects laser light entering from the outside on the substrate and selects and varies a wavelength of the reflected laser light, an optical fiber that outputs the laser light on the substrate; and an highly integrated light source that integrates the laser light input from the external cavity tunable reflecting unit using inclined input and output waveguides, a curved waveguide, and a straight waveguide to output the integrated laser light to the optical fiber in order to match an optical axis formed with the external cavity tunable reflecting unit with an optical axis formed with an optical fiber. | 03-06-2014 |