US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Colorado, Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce on June 3 for "Photonic-crystal resonators for spontaneous optical-pulse generation" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,081, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver) and Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Photonic-crystal resonators for spontaneous optical-pulse generation" was invented by Su-Peng Yu (Boulder, Colo.) and Scott B. Papp (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic-crystal resonator (PhCR) and associated methods of design and manufacture. The PhCR includes spontaneous optical-pulse generation and includes a ring whose geometry is correlated to a mode structure or dispersion of the PhCR while also taking into ...