ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,361, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Dynamic control of laser transverse mode" was invented by Pengfei Qiao (El Cerrito, Calif.), Chinhan Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Fei Tan (San Jose, Calif.) and Alexander Hein (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, an electrically activated spatial light modulator disposed on the semiconductor substrate, and a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) disposed over the spatial light modulator on the semiconductor substrate. A controller is coupled to actuate the VCSEL to emit a beam of optical radi...