US Patent Issued to Attochron on July 1 for "Broadband optical system with semiconductor optical amplifier" (Virginia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,267, issued on July 1, was assigned to Attochron LLC (Lexington, Va.).

"Broadband optical system with semiconductor optical amplifier" was invented by Thomas M. Chaffee (Lexington, Va.) and Wayne H. Knox (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a free space optical communication system comprising a superluminescent light emitting diode (SLED) with an ultrashort coherence length configured to generate a broadband beam of light, a modulator configured to modulate the broadband beam of light to encode data and generate a modulated beam of light, a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) configured to ...