H01S 5/20

Structure or shape of the semiconductor body to guide the optical wave

Official title: Structure or shape of the semiconductor body to guide the optical wave {; Confining structures perpendicular to the optical axis, e.g. index or gain guiding, stripe geometry, broad area lasers, gain tailoring, transverse or lateral reflectors, special cladding structures, MQW barrier reflection layers}

H01S5/20 (Structure or shape of the semiconductor body to guide the optical wave) appears on 6,221 US grants and 5,333 published applications in this corpus.

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