ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,582, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Lockheed Martin Corp. (Bethesda, Md.).
"Scalable arbitrary optical waveform generation" was invented by Joseph Robert Buck Jr. (Superior, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The examples herein provide enhanced optical architectures employing techniques and systems for scaling up a signal bandwidth and correcting errors in optical signals to achieve a corrected waveform that can be adjusted for the desired application with broad tuning of bandwidth, chirp rate, chirp duration and symmetry. An optical signal is provided for circulation in an optical loop, and incremental modulations are applied...