US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on Sept. 30 for "Integrated photonics with active polarization control" (New Mexico, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,716, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Integrated photonics with active polarization control" was invented by Nils Thomas Otterstrom (Edgewood, N.M.), Matt Eichenfield (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Galen Hoffman (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated photonics polarization controller that converts an input optical signal having a TE00 mode into an output optical signal having any polarization on the Poincare sphere is disclosed. This polarization conversion and control requires splitting the input optical signal into two optical sign...