US Patent Issued to KYOCERA SLD Laser on March 31 for "Phosphor structures" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,547, issued on March 31, was assigned to KYOCERA SLD Laser Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Phosphor structures" was invented by Troy Trottier (Cary, N.C.) and Sudeep Khanal (Santa Paula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source includes a laser diode device and a wavelength conversion member. The wavelength conversion member includes a wavelength conversion element having voids and a dielectric element. The dielectric element fills the voids on a surface of the wavelength conversion element adjacent to the dielectric element. An output facet of the laser diode device is configured to output a laser beam of electromagnetic radiat...