EP1989765A2 - Halbleiterlaservorrichtung - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a semiconductor laser device having an optically pumped surface emitting vertical emitter and at least one monolithically integrated pump radiation source for optically pumping the vertical emitter.
- the invention has for its object to provide a semiconductor laser device of the type mentioned with improved efficiency.
- the semiconductor laser devices of the present invention comprise an optically pumped surface emitting vertical emitter emitting in a vertical main radiation direction and at least one monolithically integrated pump radiation source for optically pumping the A vertical emitter, wherein the pump radiation source emits pump radiation in a pump main radiation direction which is transverse to the vertical main radiation direction.
- the semiconductor laser device is characterized in that at least one vertical section of the pump radiation source is designed to carry index-guiding pump radiation in a lateral direction transverse to the pump main radiation direction and transversely to the vertical main radiation direction.
- the semiconductor laser device is characterized in that the pump radiation source has a smaller width in at least one vertical section in a lateral direction transverse to the pump main radiation direction than in a further vertical section.
- the vertical portion is used as a waveguide in the
- Pump main radiation direction is executed, which has a limited in the lateral direction and in the vertical main radiation direction cross-section.
- the pump radiation mode is not only forced out in the vertical direction, but also guided in the lateral direction.
- the pump radiation sources is an edge-emitting laser.
- a pump radiation source designed according to both features is also known as a narrow strip laser or ridge laser.
- the cross section of the waveguide is rectangular or trapezoidal shaped.
- this shaping process is relatively inexpensive to produce.
- the waveguide in the pump main radiation direction may have a varying cross-sectional area.
- the waveguide may end in the direction of the pump radiation in front of a resonator mirror of the pump radiation source, or be tapered or widened in the pump main radiation direction in front of the resonator mirror in the lateral direction. In this way, coupling and decoupling of the pump radiation at the resonator mirrors can be favorably influenced.
- the pump radiation source has an active, radiation-generating pump radiation layer, and the waveguide is embodied in a region of the pump radiation source that is spaced apart from the pump radiation layer in the vertical direction.
- the semiconductor laser device in the region of the pump radiation sources is partially removed and the waveguide is formed by an exposed semiconductor strip.
- the waveguide is formed by semiconductor material with diffused dopants.
- the waveguide preferably has a width which is less than 10 vacuum wavelengths of the pump radiation and, in particular, lies between 1 and 6 vacuum wavelengths of the pump radiation. More preferably, the waveguide in the vertical main radiation direction on an expansion between 1/5 and 4 vacuum wavelengths of the pump radiation. Geometric dimensions according to these features are particularly suitable for guiding and vertically extruding the pump radiation mode.
- a passivation layer is provided on the pump radiation source, which is recessed in the region of the waveguide.
- a contact layer is provided on the pump radiation source, which contacts the waveguide on a side parallel to the pump radiation layer and facing away from the latter. Achieved in this way, which is a Stromeinlessness in the
- the pump radiation mode is advantageously as far away as possible from the contact layer.
- a pump radiation mode is preferably formed in the pump main radiation direction, which has an intensity maximum within the pump radiation layer within the pump radiation source with an intensity falling outward from the intensity maximum radially in the plane spanned by the vertical main radiation direction and the lateral direction, the intensity within the waveguide being lower as at a comparable distance outside the waveguide.
- the vertical emitter has at least one active
- Radiation generating vertical emitter layer which is spaced in the vertical main radiation direction of the pump radiation layer. Particularly preferred is the
- Pump radiation layer continues in the vertical emitter, and the pump radiation mode is extended within the vertical emitter in the vertical emitter direction such that the pump radiation mode overlaps in operation with the vertical emitter layer.
- the vertical emitter layer and the pump radiation layer are vertically separated from one another, successively grown layers, there is great freedom in the choice of materials and sizing for these layers.
- the wavelength of the pump radiation and the vertically emitted radiation can be set within wide limits, whereby a high pump efficiency can be achieved.
- the vertical emitter layer and / or the pump radiation layer preferably each comprise at least one quantum layer.
- the quantum layer can have quantum wells, quantum wires, quantum dots or combinations of these structures.
- a quantum layer is thus a layer which is dimensioned or structured in such a way that a quantization of the charge carrier energy levels, for example by confinement, which is essential for the generation of radiation occurs.
- the term quantum layer does not include any indication or limitation about the dimensionality of the quantization.
- the pump radiation layer and the vertical emitter layer are arranged downstream of an internal resonator mirror structure, which is particularly preferably a Bragg reflector.
- the internal resonator mirror structure is arranged between the vertical emitter layer and a substrate.
- Vertical emitter layer generated radiation is coupled out on the opposite side of the substrate.
- the radiation generated by the vertical emitter layer is decoupled by the substrate.
- a coupling-out window is provided in the substrate for decoupling the radiation.
- the vertical emitter layer is assigned an external mirror which, together with the internal resonator mirror structure, forms a resonator for the vertical emitter.
- beam-shaping elements or frequency-selective elements or frequency-converting elements are arranged in the resonator.
- the pump radiation source has a resonator with at least one end mirror.
- two pump radiation sources arranged on opposite sides of the vertical emitter have a common resonator and together form a laser structure.
- At least two pump radiation sources arranged parallel to one another are provided. It is particularly preferred that two pump radiation sources arranged parallel to one another have a common end mirror arrangement which consists of two end mirrors arranged at right angles to one another. Furthermore, it is particularly preferred that the two end mirrors are arranged so that the pump radiation undergoes total reflection at them. By an end mirror assembly in which total reflection occurs, can dispensed with a complex VerLiteung the end surfaces of the pump radiation source.
- a plurality of pump radiation sources arranged in a star shape around the vertical emitter are provided. In this way, high-intensity pump radiation can be coupled into the vertical emitter, since a plurality of
- Pump radiation sources can be used. Furthermore, the pump radiation in such an arrangement is advantageously directed almost radially symmetrically on the center of the vertical emitter, which favors the formation of laterally symmetric fundamental modes of the vertical emitter.
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic plan view of a first exemplary embodiment of a semiconductor laser device according to the invention
- FIG. 2 shows three different sectional views of the first exemplary embodiment of the semiconductor laser device
- FIG. 3 shows a production method of a semiconductor laser device according to the invention, illustrated by sectional views of the semiconductor laser device at different processing times;
- Figure 4 is a schematic plan view of three
- Embodiments of a semiconductor laser device according to the invention with parallel pump radiation sources are provided.
- FIG. 5 detailed views of two embodiments of the invention
- FIG. 6 shows a schematic plan view of three further exemplary embodiments of a semiconductor laser device according to the invention with star-shaped pump radiation source arrangement.
- FIG. 1 shows the top view of a semiconductor laser device comprising a central vertical emitter 1 and two pump radiation sources 2 arranged on opposite sides of the vertical emitter 1.
- the surface of the pump radiation sources 2 have waveguides 13 extending parallel to one another, hatched in the figure, as raised regions.
- FIG. 2 shows three cross-sectional views of the semiconductor laser device, in which FIG Cross-section along the registered in Figure 1 cross-sectional line AA is reproduced.
- FIG. 2A As can be seen from FIG. 2A, FIG. 2A, FIG.
- a buffer layer 4 is applied to a substrate 3, to which a pump radiation layer 5 and to this a further buffer layer 6 is applied.
- a contact layer 8 is applied to the further buffer layer 6, which is partially separated from the further buffer layer 6 by a passivation layer 7 which is not visible in this illustration.
- an etching stop layer is applied to the further buffer layer 6, followed by a vertical emission layer 10, which may comprise an alternating sequence of quantum layers and barrier layers.
- a Bragg reflector 11 is applied on the vertical emission layer 10.
- Vertical emitter 12 is coupled out of vertical emitter 1 in the exemplary embodiment shown by substrate 3. Not shown in the figure is an external resonator mirror, by means of which, together with the Bragg reflector 11, a resonator for the vertical radiation 12 is formed.
- Suitable material systems for realizing the invention can be found in the group of III-V compound semiconductors.
- the embodiment shown may, for example on the basis of In x Al y Ga] __ x _yAs, In x AIyGa ⁇ _ x _yN, In x AIyGa ⁇ _ x _yP or In x Ga ⁇ _ x ASYN] __ y with O ⁇ x ⁇ l, O ⁇ y ⁇ l, O ⁇ x + y ⁇ l can be realized.
- the invention is not limited to these material systems, but may be based on the desired wavelength or other requirement also based on another material system.
- the pump radiation sources 2 are designed as edge-emitting, electrically pumped semiconductor lasers whose pump main radiation direction is parallel to the substrate 3 on the vertical emitter 1.
- the end faces of the two pump radiation sources 2 facing away from the vertical emitter 1, lying parallel to one another, are designed to be mirror-like and serve as resonator mirrors for the pump radiation. These end surfaces can be advantageously produced by gaps along a crystal direction or else by an etching process and optionally mirrored in a highly reflective manner.
- both pump radiation sources 2 form a single, coherently oscillating laser.
- the pump radiation layer 5 can be realized by a single optically active quantum layer.
- the pump radiation layer 5 may be formed by a layer sequence comprising quantum layers separated by barrier layers.
- the quantum layer is understood to be any layer which, due to its dimensioning or structuring, causes a quantization of the charge carrier energy levels.
- the quantum layer may form a two-dimensional quantum well or contain lower dimensional structural elements such as quantum wells, quantum wires or quantum dots or combinations of these structures.
- the pump radiation undergoes diffraction by the resulting refractive index difference in the transition to the vertical emitter 1 within the vertical emitter 1 and propagates in the vertical direction, so that the pump radiation field is superimposed on the vertical emission layer and thereby the optical emission layer 10 is optically pumped as the optically active layer of the vertical emitter 1.
- the pump radiation can be absorbed either in the barrier layers arranged between the quantum layers of the vertical emission layer 10 (barrier layer pumps) or directly in the quantum layers (quantum layer pumps).
- the absorption of the pump radiation leads to the generation of electron-hole pairs which, if appropriate after diffusion into the quantum layers, occupy in the sequence energetically higher states of the quantum layers, so that a population inversion arises. By means of this population inversion, the vertical radiation 12 is generated.
- the vertical radiation 12 is coupled out through the substrate 3. If the substrate 3 for the wavelength of the vertical radiation 12 is not transparent, or absorption losses in the substrate are so great that they can not be tolerated, a window may be provided in the substrate 3 in the region of the vertical emitter 1.
- a layer structure is also conceivable in which the Bragg reflector 11 is applied to the substrate 3 and the vertical radiation 12 is coupled out on the opposite side of the substrate of the semiconductor laser device.
- the cross section according to the section line B-B is represented by the pump radiation source 2. It can be seen in cross-section that the width of the pump radiation source in the lateral direction transverse to the pump main radiation direction is smaller in an upper, first vertical section than in the lower, further vertical section. This is achieved by structuring the further buffer layer 6.
- three parallel waveguides 13 are thus formed, which form reduced sections in their width.
- the number of waveguides 13 is limited in any way up or down.
- the number of three waveguides 13 is chosen only as an example.
- the further buffer layer 6 is covered by the passivation layer 7, with the exception of the upper side of the waveguides 13.
- the contact layer 8 is applied to the further buffer layer 6 or the passivation layer 7, so that the contact layer 8 directly adjoins the upper side of the waveguide 13, but otherwise is separated from the further barrier layer 6 by the passivation layer 7.
- the pump radiation generated during operation of the pump radiation sources 2 is characterized in its lateral intensity distribution by the pump radiation modes 15a shown.
- the current required to operate the pump radiation sources is introduced by the waveguides 13 and, on the other hand, a guide of the pump radiation in the lateral direction Direction and an influence of the mode geometry in the vertical direction reached.
- the waveguides 13 have a limited extent in the lateral direction for this purpose. In the lateral direction, the waveguide 13 is so narrow in relation to the wavelength of the pumping radiation that the pumping radiation mode 15a can not form or only to a limited extent within the waveguide 13.
- a width of the waveguide 13 between 500 nm and 5000 nm to achieve this effect is particularly suitable.
- the height of the waveguide 13 in the vertical direction is preferably between 100 nm and 2000 nm. If the height is too low, the effect of the vertical mode displacement according to the invention is not optimal; if it is too high, ohmic losses in the current injection reduce the efficiency of the pump radiation sources. The optimum height of the waveguide 13 is to be determined as a compromise of these two effects.
- the most favorable distance of the waveguide 13 to the pump radiation layer 5 is dependent on both parameters, height and width, of the waveguide 13. Under certain circumstances, the waveguide 13 may reach its underside as far as the pump radiation layer 5.
- the waveguide 13 is formed by structuring the further buffer layer 6 in the form of a ridge.
- the waveguide 13 can also be designed without refractive index differences within the layer material even without topological structuring of the further buffer layer 6. Regions with different refractive indices can be generated, for example, by laterally selective diffusion or ion implantation of dopants, or by wet thermal oxidation.
- the vertical emitter 1 is shown in cross section (section C-C).
- the cross section C-C shows the intensity distribution of the pump radiation during operation as pump radiation modes 15b.
- FIG. 3 shows a production method for a semiconductor laser device with reference to cross sections through the pump radiation source 2 (analogous to the cross section BB from FIG. 2B) at different points in time in the production process.
- the exemplary embodiment of the semiconductor laser device shown differs from that shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 in that only one waveguide 13 is provided, which here serves in particular for simpler representation.
- Semiconductor laser device ie vertical emitter 1 and pump radiation sources 2, initially created in a common epitaxial process.
- problems in the transition region between pump radiation sources 2 and vertical emitter 1 grain boundaries, increased defect density, offset of corresponding layers to each other
- the semiconductor laser device After epitaxy, the semiconductor laser device thus has the same layer structure in the region of the pump radiation sources 2 as in the region of the vertical emitter 1. This layer structure has already been described in connection with the upper part of FIG. 2 and is reproduced again in FIG. 3A.
- the semiconductor laser device is then removed laterally selectively in the region of the pump radiation sources 2 except for the further barrier layer 6. This is preferably carried out in an etching process.
- the etching stop layer 9 is provided on the further barrier layer 6, said etching stop layer 9 being provided opposite to the inserted one Etching process is resistant.
- the etching stop layer 9 is in turn removed by a suitable process, thus exposing the further buffer layer 6 (FIG. 3C).
- parallel depressions are etched into the further buffer layer 6. This can be done, for example, using an etching mask.
- the depth of the trenches is then defined via the process parameters during the etching. In the exemplary embodiments shown in FIGS. 2B and 3, the trenches do not extend to the pump radiation layer 5 in their depth. In an alternative embodiment, however, it is also conceivable to make the trenches so deep that the further buffer layer 6 and the pump radiation layer 5 underneath are completely severed by the trenches. The trenches then extend into the buffer layer 4.
- other method steps for structuring are conceivable for etching, for example removal of the further buffer layer 6 by ion sputtering.
- the (or in other embodiments the) non-worn parallel ridges form the waveguide or waveguides 13 (FIG. 3D).
- the surface of the pump radiation sources 2 is provided with the passivation layer 7, with the exception of the upper side of the waveguides 13 (FIG. 3E).
- This passivation layer 7 can be formed either by anoxidizing the surface of the further buffer layer 6 in the corresponding regions or by applying a corresponding non-conductive layer. Since this does not need to be crystalline, it is not subject to a strictly controllable epitaxial growth process and can be applied in a simple manner, for example by a CVD process (chemical vapor deposition), a sputtering process or in a vapor deposition process.
- the surface of the pump radiation sources is exposed to a dopant which diffuses into the regions of the surface not covered by the passivation layer 7, ie the waveguides 13, so that a doped region 14 is formed (FIG. 3F).
- the dopant can be deliberately introduced by ion implantation or a sputtering process.
- the contact layer 8 usually a metal layer, is applied by vapor deposition (FIG. 3G).
- FIG. 4 shows the plan view of three further exemplary embodiments of a semiconductor laser device according to the invention.
- pump radiation sources 2 arranged parallel to one another are provided around a vertical emitter 1 on two opposite sides.
- the waveguides 13 are outlined.
- four parallel waveguides 13 are provided.
- the resonator mirrors 16 may be formed either by cleaving the semiconductor crystal or by an etching process, preferably a plasma etch process. In each case two opposite pump radiation sources 2 are coupled by a common resonator. The pump radiation sources 2 are in the lateral direction transverse to their pump main radiation direction and across the
- the vertical emitter 1 is pumped more strongly in its center than in its periphery. In this way, a lateral ground-modem emission of the vertical emitter 1 is advantageously excited.
- FIG. 4B differs from that shown in FIG. 4A by the embodiment of the resonator mirrors 16.
- a common one for the four pump radiation sources 2 arranged on one side of the vertical emitter 1, a common one
- Resonator mirror assembly 17 consisting of two mutually perpendicular mirror surfaces provided. Such a mirror arrangement is also known as a retroreflector.
- the design of the resonator mirrors as retroreflectors offers the advantage that total reflection occurs at both mirror surfaces, which results in a complex mirror coating with a highly reflective material or a dielectric Layer stack can be dispensed with.
- each adjacent pump radiation sources 2 are coupled to a ring laser.
- FIG. 5 shows two embodiments of a semiconductor laser device according to FIG. 4C.
- the waveguides 13 are brought in a constant cross-section as far as the resonator mirrors, the pump radiation in a laterally narrow mode distribution leaves the waveguide region through the waveguide 13.
- a very exact mirror adjustment is necessary in order to emit the light emerging from a pump radiation source 2
- Pumping radiation effectively into another pump radiation source 2 with a common resonator is shared, couple.
- the fact that the waveguides 13 are changed in their cross section in a region in front of the end mirror arrangement which can be done both by tapering (FIG. 5A) or broadening (FIG. 5B), widens the lateral mode distribution of the pump radiation and thus improves the coupling-in efficiency. This effect can be assisted by the waveguides 13 already ending in front of the common resonator mirror arrangement 17.
- FIG. 6 shows three further embodiments of a semiconductor laser device according to the invention in plan view.
- a central vertical emitter 1 is optically pumped by star-shaped pump radiation sources 2.
- high-intensity pumping radiation can be introduced into the vertical emitter 1.
- this arrangement favors the formation of a laterally grounded emission of the vertical emitter 1.
- two opposite pump radiation sources 2 form a common laser structure, wherein the end faces of the pump radiation sources 2 facing away from the vertical emitter 1 are designed as resonator mirrors 16.
- the resonator mirrors 16 are created in this case by an etching process, since suitable crystal facets are usually not present in the necessary orientation variety.
- a common, circular resonator mirror 18 may be provided. This embodiment is easier to implement in terms of process technology, but undesired ring resonances can occur.
- absorber structures 19 for preventing such ring resonances are provided in the intermediate region between the pump radiation sources 2.
- These absorber structures can be formed, for example, by V-shaped trenches etched into the semiconductor laser device, the surface of which is provided with an absorbing material, for example a metal.
- the absorbing layer is electrically separated from the semiconductor laser device by a thin insulating layer.
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