| US 7,508,857 B2 | ||
| Semiconductor laser diode and method of manufacturing the same | ||
| Sung Ui Hong, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of); Jin Hong Lee, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of); Jin Soo Kim, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of); Ho Sang Kwack, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of); and Dae Kon Oh, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of) | ||
| Filed on Nov. 02, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/265,712. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 10-2004-0105818 (KR), filed on Dec. 14, 2004; and application No. 10-2005-0043466 (KR), filed on May 24, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0126689 A1, Jun. 15, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. H01S 5/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 372—46.01 [372/43.01; 372/45.01; 372/46.013] | 9 Claims |

| 1. A semiconductor laser diode comprising:
a lower cladding layer comprising InAlAs disposed on a substrate;
a ridge including an optical waveguide layer, a quantum dot active layer, an upper cladding layer comprising InAlAs, and an
ohmic contact layer, which are sequentially stacked on the lower cladding layer, and having a predetermined width, which is
obtained by performing a channel etching process on both sides of the ridge, wherein the ridge also includes a portion of
the lower cladding layer;
an oxide layer formed by oxidizing surfaces of the upper and lower cladding layer to control an effective width of the ridge;
a dielectric layer disposed on left and right channels of the ridge;
an upper electrode layer disposed on the entire surface of the resultant structure to enclose the ridge and the dielectric
layer; and
a lower electrode layer disposed on a bottom surface of the substrate,
wherein the upper and lower cladding layers have a faster oxidation rate than that of the optical waveguide layer and active
layer so that the formation of the oxide layer substantially changes the effective width of the ridge without substantially
changing the predetermined width of the active layer or the optical waveguide layer.
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