ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,959, issued on April 29, was assigned to Vector Atomic Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Controlling soliton self-frequency shift" was invented by Jonathan David Roslund (Pleasanton, Calif.), Arman Cingoz (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Abijith Sudarsan Kowligy (Livermore, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe using a birefringent element (e.g., a half-wave plate, full-wave plate, birefringent crystal, or metasurface) or a band-pass filter to reduce the laser line broadening induced by the soliton self-frequency shift. The birefringent element may a free space element that is part of the laser cavity. Due to dispersion,...