US Patent Issued on Feb. 17 for "Integrated chirped-grating spectrometer-on-a-chip" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,771, issued on Feb. 17.

"Integrated chirped-grating spectrometer-on-a-chip" was invented by Steven R. J. Brueck (Albuquerque, N.M.), Payman Zarkesh-Ha (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Alexander Neumann (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spectral sensor and a method for forming the spectral sensor is disclosed. The spectral sensor includes a planar waveguide on a substrate; a restriction mechanism that restricts a range of angles of incidence of light impinging onto the chirped input coupling grating; the chirped input grating formed to couple incident light into the planar waveguide, wherein the chirped input coupling grating...