US Patent Issued to OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMB on March 25 for "Edge-emitting semiconductor laser diode and method for producing a plurality of edge-emitting semiconductor laser diodes" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,409, issued on March 25, was assigned to OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMB (Regensburg, Germany).

"Edge-emitting semiconductor laser diode and method for producing a plurality of edge-emitting semiconductor laser diodes" was invented by Sven Gerhard (Alteglofsheim, Germany) and Bernhard Stojetz (Wiesent, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an edge-emitting semiconductor laser diode, having: -a semiconductor layer sequence, which comprises a bottom surface, a ridge waveguide on a top surface facing away from the bottom surface, and a side surface which is arranged transverse to the top surface, and -a first re...