US Patent Issued to ACACIA TECHNOLOGY on June 17 for "Linearly distributed optical modulator with active photonic integrated circuit adjustment" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,535, issued on June 17, was assigned to ACACIA TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Linearly distributed optical modulator with active photonic integrated circuit adjustment" was invented by Ricardo Aroca (Maynard, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide an optical modulator with linearly distributed active circuitry coupled to a signal electrode to compensate for loss or attenuation of a high frequency modulation signal in the signal electrode. In one embodiment, negative resistance cells are attached to the signal electrode at various points, and have tunable negative resistances to compensate...