US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on Dec. 2 for "Magnetization-free Faraday rotators" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,477, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Magnetization-free Faraday rotators" was invented by Andrey Chabanov (Austin, Texas), Carl Pfeiffer (Austin, Texas), Igor Anisimov (Austin, Texas) and Ilya Vitebskiy (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to magnetization-free Faraday rotator systems, apparatuses, and related methods. One such system comprises a Faraday rotator device comprising a magneto-optical composite material having first and second magnetic component materials in a periodic or uniform pattern in an X-Y plane, wherein th...