US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Feb. 3 for "System and method for directionally-dependent polarization modification" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,122, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"System and method for directionally-dependent polarization modification" was invented by Andrew M. Kowalevicz (Arlington, Va.), Benjamin P. Dolgin (Alexandria, Va.) and Gary M. Graceffo (Burke, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an optical transceiver configured to transmit and receive optical signals. The optical transceiver includes a Faraday rotator and a waveplate. The Faraday rotator and the waveplate are collectively configured to provide a relative polarization change between (i) light propagating in a first direction through the Faraday ro...