US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on Jan. 13 for "Optically addressable light valves for high power operation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,902, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Optically addressable light valves for high power operation" was invented by Bikramjit Chatterjee (Livermore, Calif.), Lars F. Voss (Livermore, Calif.) and Clint Frye (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optically addressable light valve comprises a first transparent conductor layer, a layer of liquid crystal, and a photoconductor comprising an ultrawide band gap (UWBG) semiconductor. The liquid crystal is between the first transparent conductor layer and the semiconductor photoconductor. The optically addressable ligh...