US Patent Issued to Cable Television Laboratories on Nov. 4 for "Methods of injection locking for multiple optical source generation" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,740, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Methods of injection locking for multiple optical source generation" was invented by Zhensheng Jia (Louisville, Colo.), David Daniel Smith (Boulder, Colo.), Junwen Zhang (Shanghai), Luis Alberto Campos (Superior, Colo.) and Curtis D. Knittle (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coherent optical injection locking (COIL) apparatus generates multiple optical source outputs from a single optical source generated by a parent laser. The COIL apparatus includes a plurality of optical source generators each having a child laser, of les...