US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Nov. 18 for "Frequency-comb generation based on electro-optic phase-code mode-locking for circular-ranging OCT" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,157, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Frequency-comb generation based on electro-optic phase-code mode-locking for circular-ranging OCT" was invented by Benjamin Vakoc (Arlington, Mass.) and Tae Shik Kim (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A source for providing electromagnetic radiation within a particular spectral range, including: a ring-shaped optical resonator for circulating a plurality of wavelength bands including: a first optical phase modulator, a first chomatic dispersion device, a second optical phase modulator, a multi-line spectral domain filter, a second chromatic dispersion d...