ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,037, issued on Nov. 11.
"Optical frequency comb control" was invented by Brandon F. Redding (University Park, Md.) and Joseph Brady Murray (Ellicott City, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical frequency combs are used for a wide range of applications, some of which require precise control of the amplitude and phase of individual comb teeth. A technique is provided for tooth-level optical frequency comb control. A frequency comb may include a plurality of comb teeth that are separated from one another by a comb frequency spacing. This technique includes generating a train of control pulses, each of the control pulses being freque...