Invention Application
- Patent Title: HORIZONTAL EXTERNAL-CAVITY LASER GEOMETRY
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Application No.: US15853800Application Date: 2017-12-24
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Publication No.: US20190074661A1Publication Date: 2019-03-07
- Inventor: Alexander Shpunt , Andrew J. Sutton , Yakov G. Soskind
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Main IPC: H01S5/14
- IPC: H01S5/14 ; H01S5/183 ; H01S5/022 ; H01S3/08

Abstract:
An optoelectronic device includes a semiconductor substrate and a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) light source formed on the substrate and configured to emit coherent light at a predefined wavelength along a beam axis perpendicular to a surface of the substrate. A block of a transparent material is mounted on the surface of the substrate and forms, with the VCSEL, a resonant cavity at the predefined wavelength having an entrance face that is aligned with the beam axis and an exit face that is laterally displaced with respect to the entrance face along a cavity axis running parallel to the surface of the substrate.
Public/Granted literature
- US10263391B2 Horizontal external-cavity laser geometry Public/Granted day:2019-04-16
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