US Patent Issued to KYOTO UNIVERSITY, STANLEY ELECTRIC on Jan. 13 for "Surface-emitting laser element and surface-emitting laser element manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,767, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KYOTO UNIVERSITY (Kyoto, Japan) and STANLEY ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Surface-emitting laser element and surface-emitting laser element manufacturing method" was invented by Susumu Noda (Kyoto, Japan), Takuya Inoue (Kyoto, Japan), Tomoaki Koizumi (Tokyo) and Kei Emoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface-emitting laser element includes: a first guide layer including a photonic crystal layer that is formed on a c plane of a group-3 nitride semiconductor and includes air holes arranged with two-dimensional periodicity in a plane parallel to the photonic crystal layer, and an embeddin...