US Patent Issued to Intel on May 13 for "Method and apparatus for linear frequency modulation of large dynamic range with single side band IQ modulator for coherent LIDARs" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,293, issued on May 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for linear frequency modulation of large dynamic range with single side band IQ modulator for coherent LIDARs" was invented by Jianying Zhou (Dublin, Calif.) and Jin Hong (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, an apparatus includes: a modulator to modulate an optical signal with a frequency modulated (FM) signal according to IQ single sideband (SSB) modulation to output a modulated optical signal; an integrated optical transceiver to transmit the modulated optical signal and receive a reflection of the transmitt...