US Patent Issued to Ciena on Aug. 19 for "Imaging lantern for enhanced optical transmission" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,958, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Imaging lantern for enhanced optical transmission" was invented by Daniel Rivaud (Ottawa), Michael Y. Frankel (Pikesville, Md.) and Vladimir Pelekhaty (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging fiber bundle includes a first end and a second end; and N photonic lanterns, Nless than1, wherein the N photonic lanterns are disposed between and aligned to the first end and the second end. Each of the N photonic lanterns includes first M multimode cores, at the first end, that extend to S single-mode cores, where M and S are integers, and Mgreater thanS, and seco...