US Patent Issued to Analog Photonics on Aug. 25 for "Managing optical phased array performance based on phase shift variations" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,207, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Analog Photonics LLC (Boston).

"Managing optical phased array performance based on phase shift variations" was invented by Jordan Goldstein (Boston), Christopher Vincent Poulton (Somerville, Mass.), Michael Robert Watts (Hingham, Mass.), Peter Nicholas Russo (Arlington, Mass.) and Oleg Shatrovoy (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises: providing light to a plurality of optical antennas separated by a set of spacings in an optical phased array (OPA), wherein a plurality of phase shifters impose phase shifts onto light provided to respective optical antennas of the plu...