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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Philip Dowd, Bristol, GB;
Ian Hugh White, Bath, GB;
Richard Vincent Penty, Bristol, GB;
Peter John Heard, Bristol, GB;
Geoffrey Charles Allen, Bristol, GB;
Michael Renne Ty Tan, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
University of Bristol, Bristol, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 3/08 ;
Abstract
A vertical cavity surface emitting laser device ( ) has a discontinuity ( ) formed within the body of the device. When the device is in use, the direction of polarization of light emitted from the device is substantially aligned with a boundary of the discontinuity.