US Patent Issued to Optilab on May 20 for "Optical signal transmitter including folded coupling configuration of laser source to microwave photonic integrated circuit" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,511, issued on May 20, was assigned to Optilab Inc. (Phoenix).

"Optical signal transmitter including folded coupling configuration of laser source to microwave photonic integrated circuit" was invented by Henry Hung (Paradise Valley, Ariz.), Leijun Yin (Tempe, Ariz.), Ke Huang (Phoenix) and Xiaoyan Ying (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact optical device, such as an optical transmitter or transceiver, including a folded configuration, where an optical signal generated by a laser source propagates in a first direction, then is redirected in an orthogonal direction, and then redirected again to propagate in a second d...