US Patent Issued to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften on Jan. 20 for "Method and device for characterizing a resonator element" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,622, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (Munich).

"Method and device for characterizing a resonator element" was invented by Shuangyou Zhang (Erlangen, Germany), Pascal Del'Haye (Erlangen, Germany) and Toby Bi (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and a device for characterizing a resonator element, a method and a device for providing an optical frequency reference, a LIDAR system and a gas sensing system. The method includes coupling a laser light into the resonator element, the resonator element having multiple carrier resonances for the...