US Patent Issued to NKT PHOTONICS on Jan. 28 for "Optical source and supercontinuum light generation apparatus" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,266, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NKT PHOTONICS A/S (Birkerod, Denmark).

"Optical source and supercontinuum light generation apparatus" was invented by Cameron Lesley Colwell Smith (Copenhagen, Denmark), Alexandra Lupi (Frederiksberg, Denmark), Martin Erland Vestergaard Pedersen (Allerod, Denmark), Jens Kristian Lyngso (Hornbaek, Denmark) and Martin D. Maack (Lyngby, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical source (100) comprising a supercontinuum generation apparatus comprising a pump light source (102), a twisted photonic crystal fibre, PCF, (104) and a wideband quarter-wave retarder (106). The pump light source is a...