Abstract: In a semiconductor light emitting element provided with an active layer 4, a pair of cladding layers 2, 7 between which the active layer 4 is interposed, and a phase modulation layer 6 optically coupled to the active layer 4, the phase modulation layer 6 includes a base layer 6A and a plurality of different refractive index regions 6B having different refractive indices from the base layer 6A. When an XYZ orthogonal coordinate system having a thickness direction of the phase modulation layer 6 as a Z-axis direction is set and a square lattice of a virtual lattice constant a is set in an XY plane, each of the different refractive index regions 6B is disposed so that a centroid position G thereof is shifted from a lattice point position in a virtual square lattice by a distance r, and the distance r is 0<r?0.3a.

Abstract: One embodiment is a wide stripe semiconductor waveguide, which is cleaved at a Talbot length thereof, the wide stripe semiconductor waveguide having facets with mirror coatings. A system provides for selective pumping the wide stripe semiconductor waveguide to create and support a Talbot mode. In embodiments according to the present method and apparatus the gain is patterned so that a single unique pattern actually has the highest gain and hence it is the distribution that oscillates.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a laser transmitter capable of being configured to transmit one of a plurality of wavelengths. Specifically, the laser transmitter may be reconfigured using the resonance passbands of a tunable microresonator coupled with a fixed grating.

Abstract: Disclosed is a laser system comprising: A laser assembly (101) comprising a plurality of emitters; first and second light feedback devices (208, 232) forming respective external cavities with the laser assembly; a dispersive device (205) for redirecting respective portions of the light from the laser assembly to the first and second feedback devices (208, 232), wherein the first feedback device (232) is adapted to reflect a feedback portion of the redirected beam back onto the dispersive device (205) and to generate the output beam (233) from an output part of the first redirected beam, —an imaging device (213) for generating an optical Fourier transform of the plurality of emitters at a Fourier plane (235). The dispersive device (205) is positioned displaced from said Fourier plane (235) by a predetermined displacement (d) in a direction along said principle axis (230).