ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,198, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).
"Providing drive signals for a differential drive modulator" was invented by Maxime Jacques (Montreal), Gregory Brookes (Quebec, Canada), Michael Vitic (Chelsea, Canada) and Jean-Frederic Gagne (Quebec, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first (second) electrical input port receives a first (second) drive signal. A first (second) transmission line is configured to propagate a first (second) electromagnetic wave over at least a portion of a first (second) optical waveguide arm of an MZI to apply an optical phase modulation. A drive signal interconnection structur...