US Patent Issued to APPLE on May 19 for "Broadband controllable optical phase shifters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,827, issued on May 19, was assigned to APPLE INC. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Broadband controllable optical phase shifters" was invented by Mark A. Arbore (Los Altos, Calif.) and Jason S. Pelc (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclosed herein describe optomechanical phase shifters. The optomechanical phase shifters may be configured with an asymmetry that improves the performance of the OM phase shifter as a function of wavelength. In some instances, the optomechanical phase shifter includes a section of a waveguide having an asymmetric cross-sectional shape. In other instances an optomechanical phase s...