US Patent Issued to Lumentum Operations on July 21 for "Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with asymmetric aperture for improved polarization stability" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,182, issued on July 21, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser with asymmetric aperture for improved polarization stability" was invented by Richa Dubey (Milpitas, Calif.) and Matthew Glenn Peters (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) may include a substrate, a first mirror structure, and a cavity region to generate light. The cavity region may cause a resonance wavelength of a first portion of the light and a resonance wavelength of a second portion of the light to be offset from a gain peak of the VCSEL, where ...