US Patent Issued to HyperLight on March 18 for "Integrated electro-optic frequency comb generator" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,786, issued on March 18, was assigned to HyperLight Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Integrated electro-optic frequency comb generator" was invented by Mian Zhang (Cambridge, Mass.), Christian Reimer (Wellesley, Mass.) and Kevin Luke (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated electro-optic frequency comb generator based on ultralow loss integrated, e.g. thin-film lithium niobate, platform, which enables low power consumption comb generation spanning over a wider range of optical frequencies. The comb generator includes an intensity modulator, and at least one phase modulator, which provides a powerful technique to gene...