Quantum dot Laser

US5260957A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Farhad Hakimi · Watertown, US
• Moungi G. Bawendi · Cambridge, US
• Richard P. Tumminelli · Ashland, US
• John R. Haavisto · Scituate, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 29, 1992
• Grant date: Nov 9, 1993
• Expiry date: Oct 29, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S977/951
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A quantum dot laser includes a laser host material; a plurality of quantum dots disposed in the host material; and a pumping source for exciting and inducing a population inversion in the quantum dots.