US Patent 10498106 Rigid high power and high speed lasing grid structures

Disclosed herein are various embodiments for stronger and more powerful high speed laser arrays. For example, an apparatus is disclosed that comprises an epitaxial material comprising a mesa structure in combination with an electrical waveguide, wherein the mesa structure comprises a plurality of laser regions within the mesa structure itself, each laser region of the mesa structure being electrically isolated within the mesa structure itself relative to the other laser regions of the mesa structure.