Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides an electrically-regulated active coupled cavity laser to solve the problem of poor laser characteristics of a GaN microcavity in the prior art.
In order to solve the technical problems, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
an electrically-controlled active coupled cavity laser includes a silicon substrate; a first active coupling cavity, a second active coupling cavity and a silicon substrate electrode are arranged on the silicon substrate; the first active coupling cavity and the second active coupling cavity are fixed on the silicon substrate through silicon columns; aluminum nitride layers are arranged between the bottoms of the first active coupling cavity and the second active coupling cavity and the silicon column; a first coupling cavity electrode and a second coupling cavity electrode are arranged at the top of the second active coupling cavity; the first coupling cavity electrode and the second coupling cavity electrode are both in semicircular structures and are oppositely arranged; the first active coupling cavity and the second active coupling cavity are coupled with each other.
Further, the first active coupling cavity and the second active coupling cavity are disk cavities with different diameters and are coupled with each other.
Furthermore, the first coupling cavity electrode is connected with a first pin electrode through a first cantilever beam electrode; and the second coupling cavity electrode is connected with a second pin electrode through a second cantilever beam electrode.
Further, a first cantilever beam support is arranged at the bottom of the first cantilever beam electrode; a second cantilever beam support is arranged at the bottom of the second cantilever beam electrode; a first pin support is arranged at the bottom of the first pin electrode; a second pin support is arranged at the bottom of the second pin electrode; the first cantilever beam support, the second cantilever beam support, the first pin support and the second pin support are of an integral structure.
Furthermore, the bottoms of the first cantilever beam support, the second cantilever beam support, the first pin support and the second pin support are all provided with aluminum nitride layers.
Furthermore, the first pin support and the second pin support are both fixed on the silicon substrate through silicon pillars.
Further, the first active coupling cavity, the second active coupling cavity, the first cantilever beam support, the second cantilever beam support, the first pin support and the second pin support are all GaN layers.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantages:
according to the invention, the silicon column is adopted to support the active coupling cavity structure, compared with the traditional structure, the active coupling cavity can be suspended, the loss is reduced, and the laser characteristic of the laser is improved; the design of the active coupling cavity can effectively regulate and control the laser mode; the introduction of the cantilever beam can solve the difficulty caused by a bridging technology in the preparation of the electrode after the device is suspended; the electrode pin structure on the side surface can effectively improve the convenience of later-stage driving of the device and improve the practicability of the device; on the other hand, the material adopted by the invention is not only a single gallium nitride material, but also a layer of aluminum nitride is arranged under the gallium nitride, and the structure can effectively isolate the electrical contact between the gallium nitride and the silicon substrate, thereby improving the later-stage electrical regulation effect of the device; and a silicon substrate electrode is arranged on the bottom silicon, and forms a field effect tube-like structure with the first two electrodes, and an electric field can be added in the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction.
Detailed Description
The following further description of the present invention, in order to facilitate understanding of those skilled in the art, is provided in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.
As shown in fig. 1-3, an electrically-controlled active coupled cavity laser, which uses a silicon-based nitride wafer as a carrier, includes a first lead electrode 1, a second lead electrode 2, a first active coupled cavity 3, a second active coupled cavity 4, a first cantilever electrode 5, and a second cantilever electrode 6.
The first active coupling cavity 3 and the second active coupling cavity 4 are disk cavities with different diameters, a nanoscale interval is formed between the disk cavities, and an electrode is added on only one disk. The first active coupling cavity 3 and the second active coupling cavity 4 are coupled to each other.
A first coupling cavity electrode 7 and a second coupling cavity electrode 8 are arranged on the second active coupling cavity 4; the first coupling cavity electrode 7 and the second coupling cavity electrode 8 are semicircular and are arranged oppositely, and a transverse electric field can be applied to the device.
The first cantilever beam electrode 5 is used for connecting the first pin electrode 1 and the first coupling cavity electrode 7; the second cantilever beam electrode 6 is used for connecting the second pin electrode 2 and the second coupling cavity electrode 8; the first pin electrode 1 and the second pin electrode 2 have the same diameter and are respectively arranged at two sides of the second active coupling cavity 4.
A first cantilever support 13 is arranged at the bottom of the first cantilever electrode 5; a second cantilever support 14 is arranged at the bottom of the second cantilever electrode 6; the bottom of the first pin electrode 1 is provided with a first pin support 11; the bottom of the second pin electrode 2 is provided with a second pin support 12; the first cantilever support 13, the second cantilever support 14, the first pin support 11 and the second pin support 12 are of a unitary structure.
The first pin support 11 is supported by a first silicon pillar 15, the second active coupling cavity 4 is supported by a second silicon pillar 16, the second pin support 12 is supported by a third silicon pillar 17, and the first active coupling cavity 3 is supported by a fourth silicon pillar 18; the silicon column is suspended, the bottom of the silicon column is conical, the contact between the microdisk and the substrate is reduced to the maximum extent, the loss is reduced, and the electrode collapse is prevented. The bottoms of the first silicon column 15, the second silicon column 16, the third silicon column 17 and the fourth silicon column 16 are fixed on the silicon substrate 10.
The silicon substrate 10, the first silicon pillar 15, the second silicon pillar 16, the third silicon pillar 17 and the fourth silicon pillar 16 are all made of silicon layers.
The first active coupling cavity 3, the second active coupling cavity 4, the first pin support 11, the second pin support 12, the first cantilever support 13 and the second cantilever support 14 are all GaN layers.
Aluminum nitride layers 19 are arranged among the first pin support 11, the first active coupling cavity 3, the second active coupling cavity 4, the second pin support 12 and the silicon column, and the gallium nitride and the silicon are insulated from each other due to the isolation effect of the aluminum nitride.
The bottom silicon substrate 10 also has a silicon substrate electrode 9 thereon. The first coupling cavity electrode 7, the second coupling cavity electrode 8, the first active coupling cavity 3, the second active coupling cavity 4, the aluminum nitride layer 19 and the fourth silicon pillar 16 can form a field effect tube-like structure by matching with the silicon substrate 10 and the electrode silicon substrate electrode 9, and a longitudinal electric field can be applied to the device.
The first coupling cavity electrode 7 and the second coupling cavity electrode 8 can apply a transverse electric field to the device, any one of the top electrode and the bottom electrode can apply a vertical electric field to the device, and the single electrodes work together to form a field effect tube-like structure.
As shown in fig. 4, a method for preparing an electrically-controlled active coupled cavity laser includes the following steps:
the first step is as follows: spin-coating photoresist on the upper surface of gallium nitride of a silicon-based gallium nitride wafer, and then defining a pattern of a hole structure on the spin-coated photoresist layer by adopting an optical lithography technology to define a pattern corresponding to a first active coupling cavity 3, a second active coupling cavity 4, a first pin support 11, a second pin support 12, a first cantilever beam support 13 and a second cantilever beam support 14;
the second step is that: etching the nitride layer downwards by adopting an ICP (inductively coupled plasma) etching technology until the upper surface of the silicon substrate layer is etched, and then continuously etching downwards, copying the graph onto the silicon, so that the graph defined in the first step is transferred into the gallium nitride layer of the silicon-based nitride wafer to obtain four disc structures connected with the cantilever beam, and etching graphs corresponding to the first active coupling cavity 3, the second active coupling cavity 4, the first pin support 11, the second pin support 12, the first cantilever beam support 13 and the second cantilever beam support 14;
the third step: spin-coating photoresist on the substrate prepared in the second step, and then respectively defining transparent electrode patterns of a first pin electrode 1, a first cantilever beam electrode 5 and a first coupling cavity electrode 7 in a left electrode area and transparent electrode patterns of a second pin electrode 2, a second cantilever beam electrode 6 and a second coupling cavity electrode 8 in a right electrode area on the upper surfaces of the left side and the right side of the symmetrical thin-film microcavity structure by adopting an optical lithography technology;
the fourth step: evaporating a first pin electrode 1, a first cantilever beam electrode 5 and a first coupling cavity electrode 7 on the upper surface of a transparent electrode pattern of a left electrode area by adopting an electron beam evaporation technology, evaporating a second pin electrode 2, a second cantilever beam electrode 6 and a second coupling cavity electrode 8 on the upper surface of a transparent electrode pattern of a right electrode area by adopting an electron beam evaporation technology, so that a left semicircular electrode and a right semicircular electrode are respectively coated on a gallium nitride layer, and finally removing residual photoresist to obtain electrode structures corresponding to the first pin electrode 1 of the left area, the first cantilever beam electrode 5, the first coupling cavity electrode 7, the second pin electrode 2 of the right area, the second cantilever beam electrode 6 and the second coupling cavity electrode 8;
the fifth step: and etching silicon by adopting a mixed solution of hydrofluoric acid and dilute nitric acid until reaching the bottom of the silicon substrate layer by a wet method, so that an electrode and a circular electrode pin which support a silicon cone body of a symmetrical thin-film microcavity structure and leak a cantilever beam structure from the bottom surface are formed in the silicon substrate layer.
And a sixth step: and adding a silicon substrate electrode 9 at the bottom of the silicon substrate 10 to form a device.
The nitride suspended coupling microdisk, the cantilever beam and the electrode pin structure are designed and prepared by an advanced micro-nano processing technology.
The invention utilizes the optical photoetching, ICP etching process and hydrofluoric acid and dilute nitric acid mixed liquid wet etching process to prepare the symmetrical nitride suspended film micro-cavities with different sizes. Reasonable process steps are designed to obtain the symmetrical gallium nitride suspended film microcavity which is supported by a cone shape and has smooth edges. The bending loss of the microcavity and the scattering loss caused by the rough side surface are reduced. The design has the edge coupling cavity, designs the symmetrical round electrode support on the large disc, utilizes the cantilever beam structure to assist the semicircular electrode to form the electrode structure on the surface of the gallium nitride laser microdisk, and can introduce the means of microdisk electro-optical regulation and control.
The first coupling cavity electrode 7 and the second coupling cavity electrode 8 are respectively semi-annular electrodes arranged along the upper surface of the exposed gallium nitride layer, large-area gallium nitride is leaked, and the electrodes are not connected with each other.
Example 1
The silicon-based nitride wafer is used as a carrier, and the silicon substrate layer, the aluminum nitride layer, the gallium nitride layer, the left annular electrode, the right annular electrode and the electrode pin support are sequentially arranged on a single gallium nitride microdisk from bottom to top, and the middle parts of the silicon-based nitride wafer are connected by a cantilever beam structure. The silicon substrate layer of the microdisk wafer is hollow by a wet etching silicon technology, only the side wall and the bottom surface conical cylinder supporting part are reserved, and a suspended cavity below the gallium nitride layer is formed. This microdisk has set up two and has followed gallium nitride layer downwards to at least the cantilever beam of wearing gallium nitride layer, aluminium nitride layer to the cavity, and two electrode pin dishes set up respectively in the both sides of middle part microdisk, link to each other with the device through the cantilever beam, and left side semi-annular electrode and right side semi-annular electrode extend respectively about and are connected to middle part microdisk. Wherein the diameter of the central micro-disk is 20 microns, and the diameter of the micro-disk coupled with the central micro-disk is 10 microns. The microdisk is arranged on an annular electrode of a gallium nitride layer, the electrode width of the microdisk is 0.4 micron, the interval of the narrowest part is 5 microns, the width of a cantilever beam electrode extending to the microdisk in the middle is 0.2 micron, and the diameter of the electrode support on the right side of the microdisk with the length of 5 microns is 100 microns. An aluminum nitride layer is arranged between the silicon layer and the gallium nitride layer, and the thickness is 100 nanometers. The silicon substrate is also provided with electrodes to form a three-electrode structure.
Example 2
The invention relates to a method for electro-optical regulation and control of a gallium nitride microdisk, which takes a silicon-based nitride wafer as a carrier, and sequentially comprises a silicon substrate layer, an aluminum nitride layer, a gallium nitride layer, a left semi-annular electrode and a right semi-annular electrode which are respectively arranged on the single gallium nitride microdisk from bottom to top. The silicon substrate layer of the microdisk wafer is hollow by a wet etching silicon technology, only the side wall and the bottom surface conical cylinder supporting part are reserved, and a cavity located below the gallium nitride layer is formed. This microdisk has set up two and has followed gallium nitride layer downwards to at least the cantilever beam of wearing gallium nitride layer, aluminium nitride layer to the cavity, and two electrode pin dishes set up respectively in the both sides of middle part microdisk, link to each other with the device through the cantilever beam, and left side semi-annular electrode and right side semi-annular electrode extend respectively about and are connected to middle part microdisk. Wherein the diameter of the micro-disk at the middle part is 20 microns, and the diameter of the micro-disk coupled with the micro-disk is 10 microns. The microdisk is arranged on an annular electrode of a gallium nitride layer, the electrode width of the microdisk is 0.4 micron, the interval of the narrowest part is 5 microns, the width of a cantilever beam electrode extending to the microdisk in the middle is 0.4 micron, and the diameter of the electrode support on the right side of the microdisk with the length of 5 microns is 100 microns. An aluminum nitride layer is arranged between the silicon layer and the gallium nitride layer, and the thickness is 200 nanometers. The silicon substrate is also provided with electrodes to form a three-electrode structure.
Example 3
The invention relates to a method for electro-optical regulation and control of a gallium nitride microdisk, which takes a silicon-based nitride wafer as a carrier, and sequentially comprises a silicon substrate layer, an aluminum nitride layer, a gallium nitride layer, a left semi-annular electrode and a right semi-annular electrode which are respectively arranged on the gallium nitride layer from bottom to top. The silicon substrate layer of the microdisk wafer is hollow by a wet etching silicon technology, only the side wall and the bottom surface conical cylinder supporting part are reserved, and a cavity located below the gallium nitride layer is formed. This microdisk has set up two and has followed gallium nitride layer downwards to at least the cantilever beam of wearing gallium nitride layer, aluminium nitride layer to the cavity, and two electrode pin dishes set up respectively in the both sides of middle part microdisk, link to each other with the device through the cantilever beam, and left side semi-annular electrode and right side semi-annular electrode extend respectively about and are connected to middle part microdisk. Wherein the diameter of the micro-disk at the middle part is 20 microns, and the diameter of the micro-disk coupled with the micro-disk is 5 microns. The microdisk is arranged on an annular electrode of a gallium nitride layer, the electrode width of the microdisk is 0.4 micron, the interval of the narrowest part is 5 microns, the width of a cantilever beam electrode extending to the microdisk in the middle is 0.4 micron, and the diameter of the electrode support on the right side is 100 microns, and the length of the electrode support is 3 microns. An aluminum nitride layer is arranged between the silicon layer and the gallium nitride layer, and the thickness is 100 nanometers. The silicon substrate is also provided with electrodes to form a three-electrode structure.
Example 4
The invention relates to a method for electro-optical regulation and control of a gallium nitride microdisk, which takes a silicon-based nitride wafer as a carrier, and sequentially comprises a silicon substrate layer, an aluminum nitride layer, a gallium nitride layer, a left semi-annular electrode and a right semi-annular electrode which are respectively arranged on the gallium nitride layer from bottom to top. The silicon substrate layer of the microdisk wafer is hollow by a wet etching silicon technology, only the side wall and the bottom surface conical cylinder supporting part are reserved, and a cavity located below the gallium nitride layer is formed. This microdisk has set up two and has followed gallium nitride layer downwards to at least the cantilever beam of wearing gallium nitride layer, aluminium nitride layer to the cavity, and two electrode pin dishes set up respectively in the both sides of middle part microdisk, link to each other with the device through the cantilever beam, and left side semi-annular electrode and right side semi-annular electrode extend respectively about and are connected to middle part microdisk. Wherein the diameter of the central micro-disk is 20 microns, and the diameter of the micro-disk coupled with the central micro-disk is 15 microns. The microdisk is arranged on an annular electrode of a gallium nitride layer, the electrode width of the microdisk is 0.4 micron, the interval of the narrowest part is 5 microns, the width of a cantilever beam electrode extending to the microdisk in the middle is 0.4 micron, and the length of the cantilever beam electrode is 3 microns, and the diameter of the right electrode support is 200 microns. An aluminum nitride layer is arranged between the silicon layer and the gallium nitride layer, and the thickness is 100 nanometers. The silicon substrate is also provided with electrodes to form a three-electrode structure.
Example 5
The invention relates to a method for electro-optical regulation and control of a gallium nitride microdisk, which takes a silicon-based nitride wafer as a carrier, and sequentially comprises a silicon substrate layer, an aluminum nitride layer, a gallium nitride layer, a left semi-annular electrode and a right semi-annular electrode which are respectively arranged on the gallium nitride layer from bottom to top. The silicon substrate layer of the microdisk wafer is hollow by a wet etching silicon technology, only the side wall and the bottom surface conical cylinder supporting part are reserved, and a cavity located below the gallium nitride layer is formed. This microdisk has set up two and has followed gallium nitride layer downwards to at least the cantilever beam of wearing gallium nitride layer, aluminium nitride layer to the cavity, and two electrode pin dishes set up respectively in the both sides of middle part microdisk, link to each other with the device through the cantilever beam, and left side semi-annular electrode and right side semi-annular electrode extend respectively about and are connected to middle part microdisk. Wherein the diameter of the middle micro-disk is 30 micrometers, and the diameter of the micro-disk coupled with the middle micro-disk is 15 micrometers. The microdisk is arranged on an annular electrode of a gallium nitride layer, the electrode width of the microdisk is 0.5 micron, the interval of the narrowest part is 10 microns, the width of a cantilever beam electrode extending to the microdisk in the middle is 1 micron, and the length of the cantilever beam electrode is 3 microns, and the diameter of the electrode support on the right side is 200 microns. An aluminum nitride layer is arranged between the silicon layer and the gallium nitride layer, and the thickness is 200 nanometers. The silicon substrate is also provided with electrodes to form a three-electrode structure.
Example 6
The invention relates to a method for electro-optical regulation and control of a gallium nitride microdisk, which takes a silicon-based nitride wafer as a carrier, and sequentially comprises a silicon substrate layer, an aluminum nitride layer, a gallium nitride layer, a left semi-annular electrode and a right semi-annular electrode which are respectively arranged on the gallium nitride layer from bottom to top. The silicon substrate layer of the microdisk wafer is hollow by a wet etching silicon technology, only the side wall and the bottom surface conical cylinder supporting part are reserved, and a cavity located below the gallium nitride layer is formed. This microdisk has set up two and has followed gallium nitride layer downwards to at least the cantilever beam of wearing gallium nitride layer, aluminium nitride layer to the cavity, and two electrode pin dishes set up respectively in the both sides of middle part microdisk, link to each other with the device through the cantilever beam, and left side semi-annular electrode and right side semi-annular electrode extend respectively about and are connected to middle part microdisk. Wherein the diameter of the middle micro-disk is 30 micrometers, and the diameter of the micro-disk coupled with the middle micro-disk is 20 micrometers. The microdisk is arranged on an annular electrode of a gallium nitride layer, the electrode width of the microdisk is 0.5 micron, the interval of the narrowest part is 10 microns, the width of a cantilever beam electrode extending to the microdisk in the middle is 1 micron, and the diameter of an electrode support on the right side of the microdisk is 5 microns. An aluminum nitride layer is arranged between the silicon layer and the gallium nitride layer, and the thickness is 200 nanometers. The silicon substrate is also provided with electrodes to form a three-electrode structure.
The present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiments, and based on the technical solutions disclosed in the present invention, those skilled in the art can make some substitutions and modifications to some technical features without creative efforts according to the disclosed technical contents, and these substitutions and modifications are all within the protection scope of the present invention.