Patent 7349456 was granted and assigned to Agilent Technologies on March, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Purely gain-coupled diffraction gratings may be realized for use in QCLs and other edge emitting lasers that lack a typical p-n junction. The periodic, typically heavily n-doped regions of doped diffraction gratings are replaced with p-type regions having significantly lower doping.