US Patent Issued to KYOCERA SLD Laser on Nov. 4 for "Manufacturable gallium and nitrogen containing single frequency laser diode" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,802, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KYOCERA SLD Laser Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Manufacturable gallium and nitrogen containing single frequency laser diode" was invented by Philip Chan (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Phillip Skahan (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Nick Pfister (Goleta, Calif.), Christian Zollner (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and James W. Raring (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an optical device includes providing a carrier waver, provide a first substrate having a first surface region, and forming a first gallium and nitrogen containing epitaxial material overlying the first surface region....