US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on March 25 for "Single-mode hybrid III-V on silicon laser of simplified construction" (Canadian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,410, issued on March 25, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Single-mode hybrid III-V on silicon laser of simplified construction" was invented by Sylvie Menezo (Grenoble, France), Joyce Poon (Toronto) and Torrey Thiessen (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser device includes a III-V heterostructure amplifying medium; a silicon optical waveguide having a coupling section facing a central portion of the amplifying medium, a propagation section and a first transition section between the coupling section and the propagation section; and a first and a second reflective struct...