US Patent Issued to Mellanox Technologies on May 20 for "Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with cascaded active region" (Israeli, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,613, issued on May 20, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with cascaded active region" was invented by Yuri Berk (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Vladimir Iakovlev (Ecublens, Switzerland), Tamir Sharkaz (Kfar Tavor, Israel) and Elad Mentovich (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) is provided that includes a mesa structure disposed on a substrate. The mesa structure defines an emission axis of the VCSEL. The mesa structure includes a first reflector, a second reflector, and a cascaded active region structure di...