ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,003, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Bandwidth10 LTD. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"HCG tunable VCSEL with integrated detector in the sacrificial layer" was invented by Dalila Ellafi (Berkeley, Calif.), Neelanjan Bandyopadhyay (Berkeley, Calif.), Christopher Chase (Berkeley, Calif.), Michael Y. Huang (Berkeley, Calif.), Carlos F. R. Mateus (Berkeley, Calif.), Chuanshun Cao (Berkeley, Calif.), Carl V. Ford (Berkeley, Calif.), Kai Hui (Berkeley, Calif.) and Philip Worland (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VCSEL system includes a tunable VCSEL laser with one or more active regions having quantum wells and barriers. The one or...