US Patent Issued to OAM Photonics on July 8 for "Optical coherent imager having shared input-output path and method for sensing coherent light" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,030, issued on July 8, was assigned to OAM Photonics LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Optical coherent imager having shared input-output path and method for sensing coherent light" was invented by Kam Wai Clifford Chan (San Diego) and Chung Ki Wong (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an optical coherent imager implemented on a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) that enables shared path for transmitting and receiving optical signals by exploiting polarization diversity. The present disclosure also provides an optical coherent imager including an array of the optical coherent sensing units to simplify the d...