US Patent Issued to The University of Tokyo, HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Dec. 30 for "Light modulator and light modulator array" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,797, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The University of Tokyo (Tokyo) and HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Light modulator and light modulator array" was invented by Hiroki Miyano (Tokyo), Go Soma (Tokyo), Taichiro Fukui (Tokyo), Takuo Tanemura (Tokyo) and Yoshiro Nomoto (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light modulator includes a base layer, a metal reflective layer formed on the base layer, a modulation layer of a nonlinear optical crystal formed on the reflective layer, and a conductive pattern layer including a plurality of pattern portions arranged periodically in a first direction and each extend...