...that a workman who left the soap mixing machine on too long was responsible for making Ivory Soap? He was so embarrassed by his mistake that he threw the mess in a stream. Imagine his dismay when the evidence of his error floated to the surface! Result: Ivory soap, the soap that floats.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6075801 | Semiconductor laser with wide side of tapered light gain region The semiconductor laser disclosed includes a first conductivity type buffer layer, an active layer and a second conductivity type cladding layer which are sequentially positioned on a first conductivity type semiconductor substrate. The active layer has a... | 06/13/2000 |
| 4881235 | Semiconductor laser having a multiple quantum well structure doped with impurities In a well-known semiconductor laser, a multiple quantum well type active layer consisting of barrier layers and active layers or well layers, each of which has a thickness less than the de Broglie wavelength of electrons, is doped with an impurity, and th... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4852108 | Wavelength tunable semiconductor laser with narrow band-pass active filter region A semiconductor laser is disclosed in which a light emitting region having a light emitting layer and a waveguide region having a waveguide layer which is coupled to at least one side of the light emitting layer with a high efficiency are integrated on th... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4737960 | Rare earth doped semiconductor laser A solid state laser is disclosed wherein a semiconductor active layer is arranged in a Fabry-Perot cavity and the active layer is doped with a rare earth ion having a dominant emission wavelength. The proportion of elements for the compound active layer i... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4639925 | Semiconductor laser A semicondcutor laser comprises a semiconductor base structure provided with an etched channel, and a plurality of semiconductor layers laminated on the base structure by a liquid-phase epitaxial growth method and performing a laser function. The base str... | 01/27/1987 |