US Patent Issued to CIENA on May 5 for "Differential drive modulator structures for a linear electro-optic platform" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,109, issued on May 5, was assigned to CIENA Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Differential drive modulator structures for a linear electro-optic platform" was invented by Maxime Jacques (Montreal), Gregory Brookes (Quebec, Canada), Michael Vitic (Chelsea, Canada), Alexandre Simard (Quebec, Canada), Douglas McGhan (Ottawa) and Ying Gao (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are differential-drive electro-optic modulator structures for linear electro-optic (Pockels) platforms such as thin-film LiNbO3 (TFLN), directly compatible with traditional differential-output analog drivers, such as a linear electro-optic modulator, including: a firs...