US Patent Issued to Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT on Oct. 21 for "Optical arbitrary pulse pattern generator" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,707, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Optical arbitrary pulse pattern generator" was invented by Jaani Nissila (Espoo, Finland), Mikko Merimaa (Espoo, Finland), Kari Ojasalo (Espoo, Finland) and Thomas Fordell (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generator device for generating an arbitrary optical pulse pattern includes: a light source to provide primary laser pulses, a distributor to provide a plurality of primary optical pulses by distributing light of the primary laser pulses (LB00k) into a plurality of branches, a combiner to form an output signal by combining mo...