A high power semiconductor laser diode with a tapered and cascaded active multimode interferometer （MMI） cavity was designed and demonstrated. An output power as high as 32 mW was obtained for the novel laser diode with a tapered and cascaded active MMI cavity, being much higher than the 9.8 mW output power of the conventional single ridge F-P laser with the same material structure and the same device length due to the larger active area; and also being higher than the 21.2 mW output power of the rectangular and cascaded active MMI laser diode with nearly the same structure, except for the shape of the MMI area. In addition, the tapered and cascaded active multimode interferometer laser showed stable single mode outputs up to the maximum output power.
We present the design and optimization of evanescently coupled waveguide photodiodes（EC-WPDs） based on the coupling modes theory and the beam propagation method.Efficient focalization of the optical power in the absorber is achieved by an appropriate choice of index matching layers of EC-WPDs.Numerical simulation shows that high-speed（40 GHz）,high quantum efficiency（81%） and high linearity photodiodes can be achieved, and EC-WPDs are promising devices for future optical communication systems.
