US Patent Issued to PILOT PHOTONICS on July 15 for "Device and method for optical spectrum measurement" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,970, issued on July 15, was assigned to PILOT PHOTONICS LTD. (Ireland).

"Device and method for optical spectrum measurement" was invented by Frank Smyth (Dublin) and Jules Braddell (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for measuring optical spectra at high speed and with high resolution using tunable optical laser comb sources. In one embodiment there is provided a first tunable comb laser source and a second tunable comb laser source whereby the wavelength of each comb laser source is chosen such that the combination of the two sources provides a continuous spectral coverage over a band in an optical spectrum under a selec...