ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,027, issued on May 5.
"Method and apparatus of hybrid integrated photonics devices" was invented by Jin Hong (Saratoga, Calif.), Junqiao Wu (Kensington, Calif.) and Danqing Wang (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein may be related to optical devices and apparatuses directed to forming waveguides and optical phase modulators that enable high baud rate modulation. In one embodiment, an optical phase modulator includes: photonic optical waveguides having their cladding regions and electrical contacts formed by material with its absolute permittivity near zero (ENZ), and their waveguide core region f...