US Patent Issued to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE on Oct. 21 for "Optical frequency comb based parallel FM LIDAR" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,712, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Optical frequency comb based parallel FM LIDAR" was invented by Anton Lukashchuk (Lausanne, Switzerland), Johann Riemensberger (St-Sulpice, Switzerland) and Tobias Kippenberg (Aran, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a LIDAR device (100) a laser light source (110) generates first laser light having a first laser frequency which is frequency modulated with a first frequency modulation. A non-linear optical element (120) receives the first laser light and generates therefrom second laser light having a comb-like frequen...