US Patent Issued to Optilab on Sept. 23 for "Method of making thin film lithium niobate electro-optical modulators" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,726, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Optilab LLC (Phoenix).

"Method of making thin film lithium niobate electro-optical modulators" was invented by Henry H. Hung (Paradise Valley, Ariz.), Leijun Yin (Tempe, Ariz.), Xiaoyan Ying (Tempe, Ariz.) and Ke Huang (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming an electro-optical modulator including forming a lithium-niobate (LN) wafer including an optical waveguide situated within and proximate a first side of the LN wafer; bonding the LN wafer to a substrate such that the first side of the LN wafer faces the substrate; thinning the LN wafer; and forming coplanar transmissio...