US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York on May 13 for "Tunable optical frequency comb generator in microresonators" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,963, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Tunable optical frequency comb generator in microresonators" was invented by Yoshitomo Okawachi (River Edge, N.J.), Jae Jang (New York), Xingchen Ji (New York), Michal Lipson (New York), Alexander L. Gaeta (New York) and Bok Young Kim (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical frequency combs and related methods, devices, and systems are described. An example device can comprise a waveguide configured to optically couple to an optical source and at least one optical resonator optically coupled to the waveguide. The on...