Patent ID: 8451871

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a laser diode with improved light-emitting characteristics, comprising the following steps: providing a wide-aperture lasing medium that has an active emitting layer with a first end and a second end, a DPH-mode reorganizer that comprises a core having a thickness, at least one cladding, and a plurality of nanofeatures made in the core in the form of holographic elements having a depth less than the thickness of the core and smaller dimensions than those of the half-wavelength of light that can be emitted by the lasing medium, the nanofeatures being arranged in a pattern that accomplishes a given function and locally changes the refractive index of the core; forming a semitransparent mirror on the second end; and aligning the first end of the active emitting layer with the core of the DPH-mode reorganizer, thus forming a resonator.