Patents by Inventor James W. Raring

James W. Raring has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9972974
    Abstract: In an example, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a light emitting device configured as a Group III-nitride based laser device. The method also includes forming a gallium containing epitaxial material overlying the surface region of a substrate member. The method includes forming a p-type (Al,In,Ga)N waveguiding material overlying the gallium containing epitaxial material under a predetermined process condition. The method includes maintaining the predetermined process condition such that an environment surrounding a growth of the p-type (Al,In,Ga)N waveguide material is substantially a molecular N2 rich gas environment. The method includes maintaining a temperature ranging from 725 C to 925 C during the formation of the p-type (Al,In,Ga)N waveguide material, although there may be variations. In an example, the predetermined process condition is substantially free from molecular H2 gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Soraa Laser Diode, Inc.
    Inventors: Po Shan Hsu, Melvin McLaurin, Thiago P. Melo, James W. Raring
  • Patent number: 9941665
    Abstract: Optical devices having a structured active region configured for selected wavelengths of light emissions are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Soraa Laser Diode, Inc.
    Inventor: James W. Raring
  • Publication number: 20180097337
    Abstract: A low voltage laser device having an active region configured for one or more selected wavelengths of light emissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: James W. Raring, Mathew Schmidt, Christiane Poblenz
  • Patent number: 9927611
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to wearable display technologies. More specifically, various embodiments of the present invention provide wearable augmented reality glasses incorporating projection display systems where one or more laser diodes are used as light source for illustrating images with optical delivery to the eye using transparent waveguides. In one set of embodiments, the present invention provides wearable augmented reality glasses incorporating projector systems that utilize transparent waveguides and blue and/or green laser fabricated using gallium nitride containing material. In another set of embodiments, the present invention provides wearable augmented reality glasses incorporating projection systems having digital lighting processing engines illuminated by blue and/or green laser devices with optical delivery to the eye using transparent waveguides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Soraa Laser Diode, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Rudy, James W. Raring, Eric Goutain, Hua Huang
  • Publication number: 20180058640
    Abstract: A method and device for emitting electromagnetic radiation at high power using nonpolar or semipolar gallium containing substrates such as GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, is provided. In various embodiments, the laser device includes plural laser emitters emitting green or blue laser light, integrated a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Eric Goutain, James W. Raring, Paul Rudy, Hua Huang
  • Publication number: 20180059525
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a laser light source for a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: James W. Raring, Paul Rudy
  • Patent number: 9887517
    Abstract: A gallium and nitrogen containing laser diode device. The device has a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate material comprising a surface region. The surface region is configured on either a non-polar crystal orientation or a semi-polar crystal orientation. The device has a recessed region formed within a second region of the substrate material, the second region being between a first region and a third region. The recessed region is configured to block a plurality of defects from migrating from the first region to the third region. The device has an epitaxially formed gallium and nitrogen containing region formed overlying the third region. The epitaxially formed gallium and nitrogen containing region is substantially free from defects migrating from the first region and an active region formed overlying the third region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SORAA LASER DIODE, INC.
    Inventors: Melvin McLaurin, James W. Raring, Christiane Elsass, Thiago P. Melo, Mathew C. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9882353
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a laser diode device includes providing a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate member having a surface region, forming a patterned dielectric material overlying the surface region to expose a portion of the surface region within a vicinity of an recessed region of the patterned dielectric material and maintaining an upper portion of the patterned dielectric material overlying covered portions of the surface region, and performing a lateral epitaxial growth overlying the exposed portion of the surface region to fill the recessed region and causing a thickness of the lateral epitaxial growth to be formed overlying the upper portion of the patterned dielectric material. The method also includes forming an n-type gallium and nitrogen containing material, forming an active region, and forming a p-type gallium and nitrogen containing material. The method further includes forming a waveguide structure in the p-type gallium and nitrogen containing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Soraa Laser Diode, Inc.
    Inventors: Po Shan Hsu, Melvin McLaurin, James W. Raring, Alexander Sztein, Benyamin Buller
  • Patent number: 9871350
    Abstract: A multi-wavelength light emitting device is manufactured by forming first and second epitaxial materials overlying first and second surface regions. The first and second epitaxial materials are patterned to form a plurality of first and second epitaxial dice. At least one of the first plurality of epitaxial dice and at least one of the second plurality of epitaxial dice are transferred from first and second substrates, respectively, to a carrier wafer by selectively etching a release region, separating from the substrate each of the epitaxial dice that are being transferred, and selectively bonding to the carrier wafer each of the epitaxial dice that are being transferred. The transferred first and second epitaxial dice are processed on the carrier wafer to form a plurality of light emitting devices capable of emitting at least a first wavelength and a second wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Soraa Laser Diode, Inc.
    Inventors: Melvin McLaurin, Alexander Sztein, Po Shan Hsu, Eric Goutain, James W. Raring, Paul Rudy, Vlad Novotny
  • Publication number: 20180013036
    Abstract: A light emitting diode device has a bulk gallium and nitrogen containing substrate with an active region. The device has a lateral dimension and a thick vertical dimension such that the geometric aspect ratio forms a volumetric diode that delivers a nearly uniform current density across the range of the lateral dimension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas M. Katona, James W. Raring, Mark P. D'Evelyn, Michael R. Krames, Aurelien J.F. David
  • Publication number: 20180013265
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laser diode device includes providing a substrate having a surface region and forming epitaxial material overlying the surface region, the epitaxial material comprising an n-type cladding region, an active region comprising at least one active layer overlying the n-type cladding region, and a p-type cladding region overlying the active layer region. The epitaxial material is patterned to form a plurality of dice, each of the dice corresponding to at least one laser device, characterized by a first pitch between a pair of dice, the first pitch being less than a design width. Each of the plurality of dice are transferred to a carrier wafer such that each pair of dice is configured with a second pitch between each pair of dice, the second pitch being larger than the first pitch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Melvin McLaurin, James W. Raring, Alexander Sztein, Po Shan Hsu
  • Patent number: 9853420
    Abstract: A low voltage laser device having an active region configured for one or more selected wavelengths of light emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Soraa Laser Diode, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Raring, Mathew Schmidt, Christiane Poblenz
  • Publication number: 20170365975
    Abstract: A plurality of dies includes a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate having a surface region and an epitaxial material formed overlying the surface region. The epitaxial material includes an n-type cladding region, an active region having at least one active layer overlying the n-type cladding region, and a p-type cladding region overlying the active region. The epitaxial material is patterned to form the plurality of dies on the surface region, the dies corresponding to a laser device. Each of the plurality of dies includes a release region composed of a material with a smaller bandgap than an adjacent epitaxial material. A lateral width of the release region is narrower than a lateral width of immediately adjacent layers above and below the release region to form undercut regions bounding each side of the release region. Each die also includes a passivation region extending along sidewalls of the active region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Alexander Sztein, Melvin McLaurin, Po Shan Hsu, James W. Raring
  • Patent number: 9835296
    Abstract: A method and device for emitting electromagnetic radiation at high power using nonpolar or semipolar gallium containing substrates such as GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, is provided. In various embodiments, the laser device includes plural laser emitters emitting green or blue laser light, integrated a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Soraa Laser Diode, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Goutain, James W. Raring, Paul Rudy, Hua Huang
  • Patent number: 9837790
    Abstract: A system and method for providing laser diodes with broad spectrum is described. GaN-based laser diodes with broad or multi-peaked spectral output operating are obtained in various configurations by having a single laser diode device generating multiple-peak spectral outputs, operate in superluminescene mode, or by use of an RF source and/or a feedback signal. In some other embodiments, multi-peak outputs are achieved by having multiple laser devices output different lasers at different wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Soraa Laser Diode, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Raring, Mathew C. Schmidt, Yu-Chia Chang
  • Patent number: 9829780
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a laser light source for a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Soraa Laser Diode, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Raring, Paul Rudy
  • Patent number: 9831386
    Abstract: Optical devices such as LEDs and lasers are discloses. The devices include a non-polar gallium nitride substrate member having an off-axis non-polar oriented crystalline surface plane. The off-axis non-polar oriented crystalline surface plane can be up to about ?0.6 degrees in a c-plane direction and up to about ?20 degrees in a c-plane direction in certain embodiments. In certain embodiments, a gallium nitride containing epitaxial layer is formed overlying the off-axis non-polar oriented crystalline surface plane. In certain embodiments, devices include a surface region overlying the gallium nitride epitaxial layer that is substantially free of hillocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Soraa, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Raring, Christiane Elsass
  • Patent number: 9829778
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a laser light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Soraa Laser Diode, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Raring, Paul Rudy
  • Publication number: 20170331255
    Abstract: A low voltage laser device having an active region configured for one or more selected wavelengths of light emissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicant: Soraa Laser Diode, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Raring, Mathew Schmidt, Christiane Poblenz
  • Patent number: 9810383
    Abstract: A method and device for emitting electromagnetic radiation at high power using nonpolar or semipolar gallium containing substrates such as GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, is provided. In various embodiments, the laser device includes plural laser emitters emitting green or blue laser light, integrated a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Soraa Laser Diode, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Goutain, James W. Raring, Paul Rudy, Hua Huang