US Patent Issued to Lumentum Operations on July 15 for "Methods for incorporating a control structure within a vertical cavity surface emitting laser device cavity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,541, issued on July 15, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods for incorporating a control structure within a vertical cavity surface emitting laser device cavity" was invented by Ajit Vijay Barve (San Jose, Calif.) and Matthew Glenn Peters (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of incorporating a control structure within a VCSEL device cavity using a multiphase growth sequence includes forming a first mirror over a substrate, forming an active region over the first mirror, forming a spacer on a surface of the active region, forming a control structure on a surface of the spacer, and...