US Patent Issued to ASML NETHERLANDS on May 20 for "Hollow-core photonic crystal fiber based optical component for broadband radiation generation" (German, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,433, issued on May 20, was assigned to ASML NETHERLANDS B.V. (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

"Hollow-core photonic crystal fiber based optical component for broadband radiation generation" was invented by Patrick Sebastian Uebel (Marloffstein, Germany), Peter Maximilian Gotz (Bavaria, Germany), Sebastian Thomas Bauerschmidt (Wendelstein, Germany), Coen Hubertus Matheus Baltis (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Janneke Ravensbergen (Wurzburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical components and methods of manufacture thereof. A first optical component has a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber includes internal capillaries for guiding radi...