US Patent Issued to HILIGHT SEMICONDUCTOR on May 13 for "Method and system for controlling laser modulation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,967, issued on May 13, was assigned to HILIGHT SEMICONDUCTOR Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Method and system for controlling laser modulation" was invented by William Redman-White (Southampton, Great Britain), Dominique Coue (Southampton, Great Britain) and Colin Whitfield (Southampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling laser modulation in burst communications. In a start-up phase, a drive circuitry sequentially applies first and second drive currents to a laser diode such that it produces a first and second optical output, respectively. A compensating current source coupled to the laser diode ...