The butt-coupled (BT) sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector laser diode (SGDBR-LD) was designed and fabricated using planar buried heterostructure (PBH), enabling a low threshold current and a stable fundamental transverse mode. The but-coupled SGDBR-LD's with target tuning ranges of 44.4nm was fabricated, and the tuning ranges were experimentally measured to be 44.4nm. The measured peak periods of the fabricated SGDBR-LD's were well matched with theoretical values and output power is close to calculated values. The side mode suppression ratio of more than 35dB was obtained in the whole tuning range. The output power variation was less than 5dB, which is 4dB smaller than that of RWG structure.
Coherent laser light was tuned by cumulative refraction of light waves in a semiconductor laser cavity, while the wavelength of electroluminescence was not tuned by any noticeable amount. This effect is explained by the fact that the laser light has perfect spatial coherence, while the electroluminescence has a spatial coherence of 0.7 µm, smaller than the width of the wavefront. The refraction angle of 2.4 deg means that more than 16 triangular electrodes are involved in the refraction. This observation of coherent tuning may lead to a new optoelectronic device, a coherent filter, which filters out only coherent light from a coherent-incoherent mixture.
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