一种结合增益耦合分布反馈光栅的多模干涉波导半导体激光器的研制

邱橙; 陈泳屹; 高峰; 秦莉; 王立军

doi:10.7498/aps.68.20190744

摘要

半导体激光器是现代通讯领域的核心器件. 研究和开发具有高稳定性、高功率、高光束质量、窄线宽的单模半导体激光器是目前半导体激光器研究领域的一个重要的研究方向. 本文在窄脊型边发射半导体激光器的结构基础上, 提出并研制了一种在980 nm波段附近的利用有源多模干涉波导结构作为激光器的主要增益区, 利用增益耦合式分布反馈光栅对激光器的纵向模式进行调制的新型边发射半导体激光器芯片结构. 通过对比实验可以看出, 这种激光器相较于一般的分布反馈式半导体激光器, 其具有更高的斜率效率和输出功率; 而相较于一般的多模干涉波导激光器, 这种激光器具有更高的光束质量和更好的稳定性. 同时, 由于在芯片设计和制造过程中采用了表面刻蚀形成的高阶分布反馈光栅, 这种激光芯片的制造无需二次外延, 只需要微米量级精度的i线光刻即可实现, 是一种制备工艺较为简单、制造成本较低、利于商用量产的芯片结构.

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Abstract

Semiconductor laser is one of the most critical components in the field of modern communication. Research and development of single-mode semiconductor laser with high stability, high power, high beam quality and narrow line width is an important research area in this field. In this paper, A novel edge-emitting semiconductor laser diode structure is proposed. In the structure an active multimode interference waveguide structure serves as a main gain region. To modulate the longitudinal mode of the laser, a gain-coupled distributed feedback(DFB) laser based on high order surface gain coupled grating is introduced into the structure as well. The novel structure is then fabricated and compared with an conventional DFB laser. The experimental results show that higher slope efficiency and output power are achieved with the proposed structure than those with the conventional distributed feedback semiconductor lasers. The novel structure is also compared with conventional MMI laser with only Fabry-Parot(FP) cavity. The result shows that the proposed structure has higher beam quality and better stability than the FP cavity multimode interference waveguide lasers. To enhance the gain contrast in the quantum wells without introducing the effective index-coupled effect, the groove length and depth are well designed. Our device provides a single longitudinal mode with the maximum CW output power up to 53.8 mW/facet at 981.21 nm and 400 mA without facet coating, 3 dB linewidth < 13.6 pm, and SMSR > 32 dB. Optical bistable characteristic is observed with a threshold current difference. Meanwhile, by using high-order distribution feedback grating formed by shallow surface etching in the process of chip design and fabrication, the proposed structure of laser diode can realize regrowth freely and only micron-scale precision i-line lithography is required. Such a structure with simple fabrication process and low manufacturing cost has great potential for commercial mass production.

Keywords:

distributed feedback grating /
active multimode interference waveguide /
edgeemitting semiconductor laser diode

作者及机构信息

1.
中国科学院长春光学精密机械与物理研究所, 发光学国家重点实验室, 长春　130010

2.
中国科学院大学, 北京　100049

通信作者: 邱橙, qiucheng_hahaha@163.com

基金项目: 国家自然科学基金(批准号: 51672264, 11874353, 61727822, 61674148)资助的课题.

Authors and contacts

1.
State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Application, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130010, China

2.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Corresponding author: Qiu Cheng, qiucheng_hahaha@163.com

Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51672264, 11874353, 61727822, 61674148).

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施引文献

图 1 结合了增益耦合式DFB光栅的有源MMI激光芯片的结构示意图

Fig. 1. Schematic of an active MMI laser chip with gain coupled DFB grating.

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图 2 增益耦合式DFB有源波导结构的示意图^[23]

Fig. 2. Schematic of gain coupled DFB active waveguide structure^[23].

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图 3 增益耦合式DFB光栅的刻蚀深度与耦合系数κ的关系^[23]

Fig. 3. Relationship between groove depth and couple coefficient of gain coupled DFB grating^[23].

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图 4 利用COMSOL Multiphysics仿真的的光束传播的光场分布状态^[23]　(a)绝缘槽深度600 nm; (b)绝缘槽深度1200 nm

Fig. 4. Light field distribution of beam propagation simulated by COMSOL Multiphysic^[23]: (a) Insulation groove depth 600 nm; (b) insulation groove depth 1200 nm.

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图 5 利用PICS 3D仿真的一个周期内的载流子分布情况

Fig. 5. Simulation results of carrier distribution in one period using PICS 3D.

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图 6 量子阱上载流子浓度在两个光栅周期内的分布情况

Fig. 6. Distribution of carrier concentration on quantum well in two grating period.

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图 7 不同隔离槽深度量子阱上载流子浓度在两个光栅周期内的分布情况^[23]

Fig. 7. Distribution of carrier concentration on quantum well in two grating periods with different isolation groove depth^[23].

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图 8 利用MODE Solution软件仿真的1X1的MMI结构内的光场分布

Fig. 8. Simulation results of light field distribution in 1X1 MMI structure using MODE Solution software.

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图 9 利用COMSOL MultiPhysics仿真的脊型波导内的二维光场模式分布

Fig. 9. 2D optical field mode distribution of ridge waveguide structure using Comsol Multiphysics.

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图 10 DFB增益耦合光栅部分的制备工艺流程

Fig. 10. Schematic processing flow of gain coupled DFB laser diode.

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图 11 (a) DFB增益耦合光栅的俯视扫描电镜图像; (b) DFB增益耦合光栅的纵向截面扫描电镜图像; (c) 经过C-mount封装的增益耦合式DFB光栅MMI激光器的照片

Fig. 11. (a) Overlooking SEM image of gain coupled DFB grating; (b) SEM image of longitude cross-section view of gain coupled DFB grating; (c) photo image of C-mounted MMI plus DFB laser diode.

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图 12 DFB + MMI激光器结构在连续电流工作状态下的功率-电流输出特性

Fig. 12. P-I output characterization curve of MMI plus DFB laser diode under the condition of continuous current operation.

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图 13 FP腔的MMI激光器(a), 窄脊型DFB激光器(b)和MMI + DFB激光器(c)的光谱图

Fig. 13. Measured spectrum of MMI with FP cavity laser (a), Stripe DFB laser (b) and MMI plus DFB laser (c).

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图 14 FP腔的MMI激光器(a), 窄脊型DFB激光器(b)和MMI + DFB激光器的远场分布(c)

Fig. 14. Measured far field intensity of MMI with FP cavity laser (a), stripe DFB laser (b) and (c) MMI plus DFB laser.

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[3]	Dieckmann A 1994 Electron. Lett. 30 308 Google Scholar
[4]	Tilma B W, Mangold M, Zaugg C A, et al. 2015 Light Sci. Appl. 4 e310 Google Scholar
[5]	Zhou Z, Yin B, Michel J 2015 Light Sci. Appl. 4 e358 Google Scholar
[6]	Garciıa-Meca C et al. 2017 Light Sci. Appl. 6 e17053 Google Scholar
[7]	Nehrir A R, Repasky K S, Carlsten J L, Atmos J 2011 Ocean. Technol. 28 131 Google Scholar
[8]	Jeon H, Verdiell J M, Ziari M, Mathur A 1998 IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 3 1344
[9]	Zimmerman J W, Price R K, Reddy U, Dias N L, Coleman J J 2013 IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 19 1503712 Google Scholar
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