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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:
Feb. 10, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Federico Capasso, Westfield, NJ (US);
Alfred Yi Cho, Summit, NJ (US);
Albert Lee Hutchinson, Columbus, GA (US);
Gaetano Scamarcio, 70124 Bari, IT;
Deborah Lee Sivco, Warren, NJ (US);
Mariano Troccoli, Chatham, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01S 5/00 ;
Abstract
An optical gain medium has first and second active layers and an injector layer interposed between the first and second active layers. The active layers have upper minibands and lower minibands. The injector layer has a miniband that transports charge carriers from the lower miniband of the first active layer to an excited state in the upper miniband of the second active layer in response to application of a voltage across the optical gain medium.