US Patent Issued to NEXUS PHOTONICS on July 8 for "Mode control in heterogeneously integrated photonics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,014, issued on July 8, was assigned to NEXUS PHOTONICS INC (Goleta, Calif.).

"Mode control in heterogeneously integrated photonics" was invented by Tin Komljenovic (Goleta, Calif.), Minh Tran (Goleta, Calif.), Zeyu Zhang (Goleta, Calif.) and Chong Zhang (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device has first, second and third elements fabricated on a common substrate. The first element supports a first optical mode in an active waveguide structure characterized by a mesa. The second element supports a second optical mode in a passive waveguide structure. The third element, at least partly butt-coupled to the first ele...