US Patent Issued to O-Net Communications on Oct. 7 for "Ultra small packaged tunable laser assembly" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,340, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to O-Net Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Ultra small packaged tunable laser assembly" was invented by Zhigang Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Boyd (San Jose, Calif.), Guang-Hua Duan (San Jose, Calif.), Min Huang (San Jose, Calif.), Zhenming Xie (San Jose, Calif.), Rihao Li (San Jose, Calif.), Qiang Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Huixian Wen (San Jose, Calif.) and Jianguo Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external cavity tunable laser includes a gain medium module to generate a broadband optical spectrum covering a predetermined wavelength range; a collimate lens turning a div...