H01S 5/0656
Seeding, i.e. an additional light input is provided for controlling the laser
Official title: {Seeding, i.e. an additional light input is provided for controlling the laser modes, for example by back-reflecting light from an external optical component (H01S5/14, H01S5/4062 and H01S5/4006 take precedence)}
H01S5/0656 (Seeding, i.e. an additional light input is provided for controlling the laser) appears on 186 US grants and 207 published applications in this corpus.
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