US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 11 for "Photodetector with segmented absorbers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,730, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Photodetector with segmented absorbers" was invented by Fatemeh Rezaeifar Bayat (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Kam Yan Hon (Irvine, Calif.), Attila Mekis (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Gianlorenzo Masini (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodetector includes a substrate, a first optical absorber, and a second optical absorber. The first optical absorber is disposed in the substrate along a direction of propagation of an optical signal through the substrate. The first optical absorber is offset in the substrate according to an offset of the optical...