US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on June 16 for "Orbital angular momentum splitting with volumetric meta-optics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,069, issued on June 16, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Orbital angular momentum splitting with volumetric meta-optics" was invented by Gregory D. Roberts (Alhambra, Calif.) and Andrei Faraon (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices to split electromagnetic waves across broad bandwidths in correspondence with orbital angular momentum states combined with orthogonal polarization states are disclosed. The described methods can be used in fiber communication and imaging systems. The devices include three-dimensional (3D) scattering structures that can be using existing ...