US Patent Issued to Intel on June 10 for "System, apparatus and method for optical intensity modulation with direct detection using local oscillator" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,147, issued on June 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System, apparatus and method for optical intensity modulation with direct detection using local oscillator" was invented by Christian Malouin (San Jose, Calif.), Jin Hong (Saratoga, Calif.) and Wenhua Lin (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises: a coherent optical receiver front-end circuit to receive an optical signal comprising information and further to receive a local oscillator optical signal, and output an orthogonal electrical signal based on the optical signal; a processing circuit coupled to the coher...