US Patent Issued to Soreq Nuclear Research Center on Dec. 2 for "Packaging of whispering gallery mode resonators with adjustable coupling to an optical fiber" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,416, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Soreq Nuclear Research Center (Nahal Soreq, Israel).

"Packaging of whispering gallery mode resonators with adjustable coupling to an optical fiber" was invented by Eyal Yacoby (Yavne, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes coupling an optical whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonator to an optical fiber by placing the optical fiber on the WGM resonator such that a contact portion of the optical fiber contacts the WGM resonator and two non-contact portions of the optical fiber extend beyond the contact portion, coupling the non-contact portions to locking screws, and adjusting posit...