Title : 
Scattering coefficients of antireflection layers for semiconductor amplifiers
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Centre National d´Etudes des Télécommunications, Lannion, France
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
It is theoretically shown that perfect AR coating deposited on normal semiconductor lasers (active layer thickness ¿0.2 ¿m, ¿ ¿ 1.5 ¿m) can have an equivalent transmission loss ¿0.5 dB and a residual power reflectivity ¿1% for input beams coming from air.
         
        
            Keywords : 
antireflection coatings; light scattering; semiconductor junction lasers; antireflection layers; residual power reflectivity; scattering coefficients; semiconductor amplifiers; semiconductor lasers; transmission loss;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Electronics Letters
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1049/el:19860079